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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [https://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAuyh2Q6kw Artie Shaw's original 1940's version] on YouTube. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4_mE8JVlI YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

{{Vineland PbP}}

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2026-01-31T01:15:09Z

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{{Vineland PbP Text}}

==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAuyh2Q6kw Artie Shaw's original 1940's version] on YouTube. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4_mE8JVlI YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

{{Vineland PbP}}

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2026-01-31T01:14:42Z

WikiAdmin: /* Page 31 */

{{Vineland PbP Text}}

==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAuyh2Q6kw Artie Shaw's original 1940's version] on YouTube. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4_mE8JVlI YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAuyh2Q6kw Artie Shaw's original 1940's version] on YouTube. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4_mE8JVlI YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can listen to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jAuyh2Q6kw Artie Shaw's original 1940's version] on YouTube. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4_mE8JVlI YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can download [http://www.tuxjunction.net/media/frenesi.mp3 Artie Shaw's original 1940's version]. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTIdAUtpk Fresnel lenses] (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can download [http://www.tuxjunction.net/media/frenesi.mp3 Artie Shaw's original 1940's version]. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name may be a reference to Fresnel lenses (the 's' is silent in Fresnel) which are intrinsic to many film lights, enabling the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her inspired by his work and her mother's eyes.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!". A similar joke appears in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - “You will show me your papers!" hollers the leader of the raid. Säure smiles and holds up a pack of Zig-Zags, just in from Paris. (p.442)

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can download [http://www.tuxjunction.net/media/frenesi.mp3 Artie Shaw's original 1940's version]. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

Frenesi's name might also be a reference to Fresnel (silent s) lenses which are/were used in film lights to enable the sharper focusing and containment of light into places the lighting team wishes it to fall. Surely her father had that at least partly in mind when naming her.

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme here and in GR.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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'''"logger types, fallers, choker setters..."''' 
Faller (aka "cutters") are the elites of logging. Their work is very dangerous as they cut down the trees that are then processed by others. The faller often works shorter hours, and usually works alone. A choker setter fastens chokers devices constructed from five-to eight-foot lengths of 3/8ths diameter steel cable with a sliding bell attached around logs so they can be moved by the yarder, cat, or skidder. It's usually the initial job that a logger will obtain on a logging crew. [http://www.ccrh.org/oral/women&timber/glossary.htm]

[[image:clara-bow.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Clara Bow]]'''Pia Zadora in ''The Clara Bow Story''''' 
The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Zadora Pia Zadora], whose film career (eg. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'']) was going nowhere until she married Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis in 1977, had some success in film and music, but no longer. Not sure of the connection with the famous silent-film actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow Clara Bow].

Throughout ''Vineland'' Pynchon tosses off "Actor ''X'' in Movie Biography ''Y''" jokes. Each is a horrendous miscasting. In this case the truly charismatic Clara Bow is played by the money-inflated Pia Zadora.

In Orwell's 1984, the Party continuously rewrites history by falsifying records, altering photographs, and vaporizing witnesses. In Pynchon's 1984, Hollywood continuously rewrites history by producing made-for-TV movies.

'''"Zoy-oyd..."''' 
Prairie is a wonderfully drawn 14-year-old teenager.

'''"ancient surfer baggies [...] and a dilapidated Hussong's T-shirt..."''' 
Baggies swim trunks that were about knee-length and, yes, baggy were a radical departure from the short and tight men's swimware prevalent in the 60s. They were part of the surfer uniform and were memorialized in song by the Beach Boys and other "surf" groups (The Fantastic Baggies, for one!). So Zoyd's could be over 20 years old.
[[Image:HussongShirt.jpg|thumb|Image From A Hussong's T-shirt|right]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussong's Hussong's], established in 1890 and located in Ensenada in Baja, Mexico, is the oldest cantina in the Californias, and was and is a popular surfers hangout serving primarily beer, piña colladas and peanuts. It’s also the place where the Margarita was invented—back in October, 1941 by bartender Don Carlos Orozco. Zoyd is indeed a California Boy. And it's somewhat likely that Pynchon swung by Hussong's during one of his Mexico visits.

'''"the Tube"''' 
Consistently capitalized throughout the book.

'''"a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store."''' 
This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper like autobiography, maybe?

'''"news anchor Skip Tromblay"''' 
The French word ''trembles'' means "to tremble or shake" and is often used in describing someone's voice. The imperfect form is ''tremblais''. Quivering with excitement?

==Page 15==
'''"almost featured on 'Good Morning America'"''' 
15 minutes of almost fame.

'''"Day-Glo orange [...] some acid green"''' 
"Day-Glo" colors are associated with the Psychedelic Sixties, as they would glow when illuminated with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light black light], and "black-light" effects where ubiquitous during that period. "Acid green" makes an appearance in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11 ''V''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_181-189 ''Gravity's Rainbow''], see also Isaiah's tinted Mohawk on p.17.

'''"the million crystal trajectories, smooth as fountain-drops"''' 
Cf. In [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Crystal_Palace ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "He's afraid of the way the glass will fall soon it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace." (p.3)

'''"useful distinction between...defenestrative [and transfenestrative] personality"''' 
Cool Pynchonian satire of California Psychobabble. "Defenestration" is throwing something or someone out an open window; "Transfenestration" is throwing someone ''through'' a closed window, breaking the glass, natch. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration Wikipedia], the term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year of 1618, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague Defenestrations of Prague].

==Page 16==
'''"named himself after what again, some robot?"'''

Zoyd's comment in response to Prairie calling her boyfriend "the Big I." "I, Robot" is the title of a 1939 short story by Eando Binder and a 1951 short story collection by Isaac Asimov. The Asimov stories are [very loosely] the basis for the Will Smith movie of the same name. This also explains Zoyd calling Isaiah "R2D2".

'''Isaiah Two Four''' 
Zoyd is right. This verse is about turning away from war toward peace: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

This verse is also the basis for the well known civil rights song "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (aka, "Down by the Riverside").

'''"Love is strange"''' 
Refers to Mickey and Sylvia's ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Baker Mickey Baker] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Vanderpool's Sylvia Vanderpool]) 1957 Top-40 hit song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_Strange "Love is Strange"]. Clearly on Pynchon's Top-40, as well; he used it as the lead for his [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html ''New York Times Book Review'' piece] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera ''Love In the Time of Cholera'']:

:Love, as Mickey and Sylvia, in their 1956 [sic it reached #11 on the Billboard charts in March 1957] hit single, remind us, love is strange. As we grow older it gets stranger, until at some point mortality has come well within the frame of our attention, and there we are, suddenly caught between terminal dates while still talking a game of eternity. It's about then that we may begin to regard love songs, romance novels, soap operas and any live teen-age pronouncements at all on the subject of love with an increasingly impatient, not to mention intolerant, ear.

The tune was allegedly written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley Bo Diddley] although it was presented to Mickey and Sylvia as being composed by Bo's wife Ethel Smith. Apparently, Bo didn't want the credit because he was pissed off at his music publishers because they didn't pay him enough. Mickey Baker is considered by some to be the first great rock 'n' roll guitarist and, prior to the duo, he was in a rhythm and blues band with saxophonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Curtis King Curtis] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Taylor_%28jazz%29 Sam "The Man" Taylor]. After the success of "Love is Strange," Mickey moved to Paris where he remained for twenty-five years, touring, very rarely, as a blues guitarist.

Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvcZhX7oxk YouTube].

==Page 17==
'''"Joey Chitwood-type thrill show"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joie_Chitwood Joey Chitwood] (1912-1988), a legendary "Auto Daredevil," started touring with his death-defying troupe in the 1940s, and continued for decades. He was an inspiration for fellow daredevil [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel Evel Knievel] (1938-2007).

'''"his long Mohawk colored a vibrant acid green, except at the tips, where some magenta shade was airbrushed on. Now these happened to be Zoyd's two all-time favorite colors..."''' 
Also two of Pynchon's, the 'quaint sixties combo' of lime green and magenta turning up, like a Bodine character, in almost every novel.

==Page 18==
'''"the Uzi machine gun, 'badass of the desert.'"'''[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|Uzi Submachine Gun|right]] 
Pynchon seems moderately hung up on rear ends in this book (and elsewhere). The phrase "badass" recurs constantly (as it did in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] too, where it achieved Naval Significance as the USS John E. Badass). In addition there's Trasero County (trasero = Spanish for "rump,") Las Nalgas (Spanish for "buttocks,") and Culito Canyon (culito = Spanish for "little ass.") There's also an echo of Da Conho, the cook in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''], whose fantasy involved shooting Muslims in Israel with a .30 caliber machine gun that went "yibble, yibble, yibble." ("Da Conho's machine gun was the only one in the world that went "yibble, yibble," Pynchon pointed out.)

==Page 19==
'''"from here to Gardena"''' 
Likely a Southern California local phrase used hyperbolically to mean "anywhere," but it specifically references Gardena, California, a city known for its unique culture, especially its famous bowling alley and coffee shop, making it a familiar local landmark for boasting. The 1992 song ''So What'cha Want?'' includes the phrase "from here to Gardena." So it's likely Pynchon inspired, or perhaps just SoCal slang? Whatever ever the case, I can't find any references to or uses of that specific phrase that pre-dates ''Vineland'' (1990).

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==Page 14==
'''"logger types, fallers, choker setters..."''' 
Faller (aka "cutters") are the elites of logging. Their work is very dangerous as they cut down the trees that are then processed by others. The faller often works shorter hours, and usually works alone. A choker setter fastens chokers devices constructed from five-to eight-foot lengths of 3/8ths diameter steel cable with a sliding bell attached around logs so they can be moved by the yarder, cat, or skidder. It's usually the initial job that a logger will obtain on a logging crew. [http://www.ccrh.org/oral/women&timber/glossary.htm]

[[image:clara-bow.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Clara Bow]]'''Pia Zadora in ''The Clara Bow Story''''' 
The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Zadora Pia Zadora], whose film career (eg. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'']) was going nowhere until she married Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis in 1977, had some success in film and music, but no longer. Not sure of the connection with the famous silent-film actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow Clara Bow].

Throughout ''Vineland'' Pynchon tosses off "Actor ''X'' in Movie Biography ''Y''" jokes. Each is a horrendous miscasting. In this case the truly charismatic Clara Bow is played by the money-inflated Pia Zadora.

In Orwell's 1984, the Party continuously rewrites history by falsifying records, altering photographs, and vaporizing witnesses. In Pynchon's 1984, Hollywood continuously rewrites history by producing made-for-TV movies.

'''"Zoy-oyd..."''' 
Prairie is a wonderfully drawn 14-year-old teenager.

'''"ancient surfer baggies [...] and a dilapidated Hussong's T-shirt..."''' 
Baggies swim trunks that were about knee-length and, yes, baggy were a radical departure from the short and tight men's swimware prevalent in the 60s. They were part of the surfer uniform and were memorialized in song by the Beach Boys and other "surf" groups (The Fantastic Baggies, for one!). So Zoyd's could be over 20 years old.
[[Image:HussongShirt.jpg|thumb|Image From A Hussong's T-shirt|right]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussong's Hussong's], established in 1890 and located in Ensenada in Baja, Mexico, is the oldest cantina in the Californias, and was and is a popular surfers hangout serving primarily beer, piña colladas and peanuts. It’s also the place where the Margarita was invented—back in October, 1941 by bartender Don Carlos Orozco. Zoyd is indeed a California Boy. And it's somewhat likely that Pynchon swung by Hussong's during one of his Mexico visits.

'''"the Tube"''' 
Consistently capitalized throughout the book.

'''"a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store."''' 
This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper like autobiography, maybe?

'''"news anchor Skip Tromblay"''' 
The French word ''trembles'' means "to tremble or shake" and is often used in describing someone's voice. The imperfect form is ''tremblais''. Quivering with excitement?

==Page 15==
'''"almost featured on 'Good Morning America'"''' 
15 minutes of almost fame.

'''"Day-Glo orange [...] some acid green"''' 
"Day-Glo" colors are associated with the Psychedelic Sixties, as they would glow when illuminated with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light black light], and "black-light" effects where ubiquitous during that period. "Acid green" makes an appearance in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11 ''V''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_181-189 ''Gravity's Rainbow''], see also Isaiah's tinted Mohawk on p.17.

'''"the million crystal trajectories, smooth as fountain-drops"''' 
Cf. In [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Crystal_Palace ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "He's afraid of the way the glass will fall soon it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace." (p.3)

'''"useful distinction between...defenestrative [and transfenestrative] personality"''' 
Cool Pynchonian satire of California Psychobabble. "Defenestration" is throwing something or someone out an open window; "Transfenestration" is throwing someone ''through'' a closed window, breaking the glass, natch. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration Wikipedia], the term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year of 1618, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague Defenestrations of Prague].

==Page 16==
'''"named himself after what again, some robot?"'''

Zoyd's comment in response to Prairie calling her boyfriend "the Big I." "I, Robot" is the title of a 1939 short story by Eando Binder and a 1951 short story collection by Isaac Asimov. The Asimov stories are [very loosely] the basis for the Will Smith movie of the same name. This also explains Zoyd calling Isaiah "R2D2".

'''Isaiah Two Four''' 
Zoyd is right. This verse is about turning away from war toward peace: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

This verse is also the basis for the well known civil rights song "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (aka, "Down by the Riverside").

'''"Love is strange"''' 
Refers to Mickey and Sylvia's ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Baker Mickey Baker] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Vanderpool's Sylvia Vanderpool]) 1957 Top-40 hit song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_Strange "Love is Strange"]. Clearly on Pynchon's Top-40, as well; he used it as the lead for his [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html ''New York Times Book Review'' piece] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera ''Love In the Time of Cholera'']:

:Love, as Mickey and Sylvia, in their 1956 [sic it reached #11 on the Billboard charts in March 1957] hit single, remind us, love is strange. As we grow older it gets stranger, until at some point mortality has come well within the frame of our attention, and there we are, suddenly caught between terminal dates while still talking a game of eternity. It's about then that we may begin to regard love songs, romance novels, soap operas and any live teen-age pronouncements at all on the subject of love with an increasingly impatient, not to mention intolerant, ear.

The tune was allegedly written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley Bo Diddley] although it was presented to Mickey and Sylvia as being composed by Bo's wife Ethel Smith. Apparently, Bo didn't want the credit because he was pissed off at his music publishers because they didn't pay him enough. Mickey Baker is considered by some to be the first great rock 'n' roll guitarist and, prior to the duo, he was in a rhythm and blues band with saxophonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Curtis King Curtis] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Taylor_%28jazz%29 Sam "The Man" Taylor]. After the success of "Love is Strange," Mickey moved to Paris where he remained for twenty-five years, touring, very rarely, as a blues guitarist.

Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvcZhX7oxk YouTube].

==Page 17==
'''"Joey Chitwood-type thrill show"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joie_Chitwood Joey Chitwood] (1912-1988), a legendary "Auto Daredevil," started touring with his death-defying troupe in the 1940s, and continued for decades. He was an inspiration for fellow daredevil [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel Evel Knievel] (1938-2007).

'''"his long Mohawk colored a vibrant acid green, except at the tips, where some magenta shade was airbrushed on. Now these happened to be Zoyd's two all-time favorite colors..."''' 
Also two of Pynchon's, the 'quaint sixties combo' of lime green and magenta turning up, like a Bodine character, in almost every novel.

==Page 18==
'''"the Uzi machine gun, 'badass of the desert.'"'''[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|Uzi Submachine Gun|right]] 
Pynchon seems moderately hung up on rear ends in this book (and elsewhere). The phrase "badass" recurs constantly (as it did in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] too, where it achieved Naval Significance as the USS John E. Badass). In addition there's Trasero County (trasero = Spanish for "rump,") Las Nalgas (Spanish for "buttocks,") and Culito Canyon (culito = Spanish for "little ass.") There's also an echo of Da Conho, the cook in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''], whose fantasy involved shooting Muslims in Israel with a .30 caliber machine gun that went "yibble, yibble, yibble." ("Da Conho's machine gun was the only one in the world that went "yibble, yibble," Pynchon pointed out.)

==Page 19==
'''"from here to Gardena"''' 
Likely a Southern California local phrase used hyperbolically to mean "anywhere," but it specifically references Gardena, California, a city known for its unique culture, especially its famous bowling alley and coffee shop, making it a familiar local landmark for boasting. The 1992 song ''So What'cha Want?'' includes the phrase "from here to Gardena." So perhaps Pynchon inspired, or just using SoCal slang? I can't find any references to or uses of that specific phrase that pre-dates ''Vineland'' (1990).

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==Page 14==
'''"logger types, fallers, choker setters..."''' 
Faller (aka "cutters") are the elites of logging. Their work is very dangerous as they cut down the trees that are then processed by others. The faller often works shorter hours, and usually works alone. A choker setter fastens chokers devices constructed from five-to eight-foot lengths of 3/8ths diameter steel cable with a sliding bell attached around logs so they can be moved by the yarder, cat, or skidder. It's usually the initial job that a logger will obtain on a logging crew. [http://www.ccrh.org/oral/women&timber/glossary.htm]

[[image:clara-bow.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Clara Bow]]'''Pia Zadora in ''The Clara Bow Story''''' 
The first of many fictitious movies. It's easy to tell, because Pynchon always provides a bracketed date [1980] when he references a real movie, but not a fictitious one. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Zadora Pia Zadora], whose film career (eg. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'']) was going nowhere until she married Israeli multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis in 1977, had some success in film and music, but no longer. Not sure of the connection with the famous silent-film actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow Clara Bow].

Throughout ''Vineland'' Pynchon tosses off "Actor ''X'' in Movie Biography ''Y''" jokes. Each is a horrendous miscasting. In this case the truly charismatic Clara Bow is played by the money-inflated Pia Zadora.

In Orwell's 1984, the Party continuously rewrites history by falsifying records, altering photographs, and vaporizing witnesses. In Pynchon's 1984, Hollywood continuously rewrites history by producing made-for-TV movies.

'''"Zoy-oyd..."''' 
Prairie is a wonderfully drawn 14-year-old teenager.

'''"ancient surfer baggies [...] and a dilapidated Hussong's T-shirt..."''' 
Baggies swim trunks that were about knee-length and, yes, baggy were a radical departure from the short and tight men's swimware prevalent in the 60s. They were part of the surfer uniform and were memorialized in song by the Beach Boys and other "surf" groups (The Fantastic Baggies, for one!). So Zoyd's could be over 20 years old.
[[Image:HussongShirt.jpg|thumb|Image From A Hussong's T-shirt|right]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussong's Hussong's], established in 1890 and located in Ensenada in Baja, Mexico, is the oldest cantina in the Californias, and was and is a popular surfers hangout serving primarily beer, piña colladas and peanuts. It’s also the place where the Margarita was invented—back in October, 1941 by bartender Don Carlos Orozco. Zoyd is indeed a California Boy. And it's somewhat likely that Pynchon swung by Hussong's during one of his Mexico visits.

'''"the Tube"''' 
Consistently capitalized throughout the book.

'''"a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store."''' 
This combination of junk food and health food defines the North Coast redneck hippie perfectly. But Pynchon's insistent hammering on Zoyd's junk-food habit may go a little deeper like autobiography, maybe?

'''"news anchor Skip Tromblay"''' 
The French word ''trembles'' means "to tremble or shake" and is often used in describing someone's voice. The imperfect form is ''tremblais''. Quivering with excitement?

==Page 15==
'''"almost featured on 'Good Morning America'"''' 
15 minutes of almost fame.

'''"Day-Glo orange [...] some acid green"''' 
"Day-Glo" colors are associated with the Psychedelic Sixties, as they would glow when illuminated with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light black light], and "black-light" effects where ubiquitous during that period. "Acid green" makes an appearance in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11 ''V''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_181-189 ''Gravity's Rainbow''], see also Isaiah's tinted Mohawk on p.17.

'''"the million crystal trajectories, smooth as fountain-drops"''' 
Cf. In [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Crystal_Palace ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "He's afraid of the way the glass will fall soon it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace." (p.3)

'''"useful distinction between...defenestrative [and transfenestrative] personality"''' 
Cool Pynchonian satire of California Psychobabble. "Defenestration" is throwing something or someone out an open window; "Transfenestration" is throwing someone ''through'' a closed window, breaking the glass, natch. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration Wikipedia], the term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year of 1618, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague Defenestrations of Prague].

==Page 16==
'''"named himself after what again, some robot?"'''

Zoyd's comment in response to Prairie calling her boyfriend "the Big I." "I, Robot" is the title of a 1939 short story by Eando Binder and a 1951 short story collection by Isaac Asimov. The Asimov stories are [very loosely] the basis for the Will Smith movie of the same name. This also explains Zoyd calling Isaiah "R2D2".

'''Isaiah Two Four''' 
Zoyd is right. This verse is about turning away from war toward peace: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

This verse is also the basis for the well known civil rights song "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" (aka, "Down by the Riverside").

'''"Love is strange"''' 
Refers to Mickey and Sylvia's ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Baker Mickey Baker] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Vanderpool's Sylvia Vanderpool]) 1957 Top-40 hit song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_Strange "Love is Strange"]. Clearly on Pynchon's Top-40, as well; he used it as the lead for his [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html ''New York Times Book Review'' piece] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera ''Love In the Time of Cholera'']:

:Love, as Mickey and Sylvia, in their 1956 [sic it reached #11 on the Billboard charts in March 1957] hit single, remind us, love is strange. As we grow older it gets stranger, until at some point mortality has come well within the frame of our attention, and there we are, suddenly caught between terminal dates while still talking a game of eternity. It's about then that we may begin to regard love songs, romance novels, soap operas and any live teen-age pronouncements at all on the subject of love with an increasingly impatient, not to mention intolerant, ear.

The tune was allegedly written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley Bo Diddley] although it was presented to Mickey and Sylvia as being composed by Bo's wife Ethel Smith. Apparently, Bo didn't want the credit because he was pissed off at his music publishers because they didn't pay him enough. Mickey Baker is considered by some to be the first great rock 'n' roll guitarist and, prior to the duo, he was in a rhythm and blues band with saxophonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Curtis King Curtis] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Taylor_%28jazz%29 Sam "The Man" Taylor]. After the success of "Love is Strange," Mickey moved to Paris where he remained for twenty-five years, touring, very rarely, as a blues guitarist.

Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvcZhX7oxk YouTube].

==Page 17==
'''"Joey Chitwood-type thrill show"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joie_Chitwood Joey Chitwood] (1912-1988), a legendary "Auto Daredevil," started touring with his death-defying troupe in the 1940s, and continued for decades. He was an inspiration for fellow daredevil [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel Evel Knievel] (1938-2007).

'''"his long Mohawk colored a vibrant acid green, except at the tips, where some magenta shade was airbrushed on. Now these happened to be Zoyd's two all-time favorite colors..."''' 
Also two of Pynchon's, the 'quaint sixties combo' of lime green and magenta turning up, like a Bodine character, in almost every novel.

==Page 18==
'''"the Uzi machine gun, 'badass of the desert.'"'''[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|Uzi Submachine Gun|right]] 
Pynchon seems moderately hung up on rear ends in this book (and elsewhere). The phrase "badass" recurs constantly (as it did in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] too, where it achieved Naval Significance as the USS John E. Badass). In addition there's Trasero County (trasero = Spanish for "rump,") Las Nalgas (Spanish for "buttocks,") and Culito Canyon (culito = Spanish for "little ass.") There's also an echo of Da Conho, the cook in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''], whose fantasy involved shooting Muslims in Israel with a .30 caliber machine gun that went "yibble, yibble, yibble." ("Da Conho's machine gun was the only one in the world that went "yibble, yibble," Pynchon pointed out.)

==Page 19==
'''"distribute him from here to Gardena"''' 
The 1992 song ''So What'cha Want?'' includes the phrase "from here to Gardena." So perhaps Pynchon inspired?
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An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section. '''SPOILER ALERT!!!''' Many of the spoilers from the Reader's Guide are still in the page-by-page annotations. See the [[Talk:Vineland_Page_by_Page|talk page.]]
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [https://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon Writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pynchon]
* [https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/spermatikos-logos/ Shipwreck Library (was The Modern Word) Pynchon page]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:vineland-LitHub.jpg|thumb|150px|left]]An interesting [https://lithub.com/why-thomas-pynchons-vineland-a-disappointment-when-it-was-published-is-the-novel-we-need-right-now/2025 article] by Devin Thomas O’Shea (''LitHub'') on what lessons we can take from ''Vineland'' in 2025, "'''Why Thomas Pynchon’s ''Vineland'' — a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now'''": "2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwaukee in the Great Depression—Hicks McTaggart, “a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye” searches for a missing Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, who ends up entangled with paranormal, Nazi, Soviet, and British agents. “Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer.”

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/12/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [https://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. Along with more of his writings on Pynchon, it's available on [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/ his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
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<div id="announcement-home">
'''The ''Vineland'' Wiki''' 
The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

[[Vineland_Playlist|'''Vineland Playlist: Songs and artists mentioned in ''Vineland''']]

'''Download:''' 
[http://www.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/download/Vineland-Index_D-Albert.pdf "Index of Fictional Characters, Places & Things in ''Vineland'', compiled by Douglas Albert (PDF)]

</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

The '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''' allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section. '''SPOILER ALERT!!!''' Many of the spoilers from the Reader's Guide are still in the page-by-page annotations. See the [[Talk:Vineland_Page_by_Page|talk page.]]
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [https://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon Writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pynchon]
* [https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/spermatikos-logos/ Shipwreck Library (was The Modern Word) Pynchon page]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/12/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [https://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. Along with more of his writings on Pynchon, it's available on [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/ his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
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Enjoy...

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[[Image:Vineland_cover.jpg|310px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Vineland'' Wiki'''</big>

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*'''Purchase ''Vineland''''': [https://amzn.to/4eBDU1O Paperback] | [https://amzn.to/4eBzpEd Hardcover]
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This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland''. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Vineland covers|''Vineland'' covers]], read the [[Reviews of Vineland|reviews]], or [[Vineland Obs|provide insights or observations]].

<div id="announcement-home">
'''The ''Vineland'' Wiki''' 
The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

[[Vineland_Playlist|'''Vineland Playlist: Songs and artists mentioned in ''Vineland''']]

'''Download:''' 
[http://www.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/download/Vineland-Index_D-Albert.pdf "Index of Fictional Characters, Places & Things in ''Vineland'', compiled by Douglas Albert (PDF)]

</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

The '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''' allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section. '''SPOILER ALERT!!!''' Many of the spoilers from the Reader's Guide are still in the page-by-page annotations. See the [[Talk:Vineland_Page_by_Page|talk page.]]
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [https://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon Writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pynchon]
* [https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/spermatikos-logos/ Shipwreck Library (was The Modern Word) Pynchon page]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/12/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [https://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. Along with more of his writings on Pynchon, it's available on [https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/ his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
Below are some of the images you will find on Pynchon Wiki. {{Special:Newimages}}

Enjoy...

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2025-07-08T23:53:28Z

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[[Image:Vineland_cover.jpg|310px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Vineland'' Wiki'''</big>

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*'''Purchase ''Vineland''''': [https://amzn.to/4eBDU1O Paperback] | [https://amzn.to/4eBzpEd Hardcover]
*[https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_odkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_osacat=0&_sop=12 '''Search EBay for ''Vineland''''']

This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland''. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Vineland covers|''Vineland'' covers]], read the [[Reviews of Vineland|reviews]], or [[Vineland Obs|provide insights or observations]].

<div id="announcement-home">
'''The ''Vineland'' Wiki''' 
The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

[[Vineland_Playlist|'''Vineland Playlist: Songs and artists mentioned in ''Vineland''']]

'''Download:''' 
[http://www.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/download/Vineland-Index_D-Albert.pdf "Index of Fictional Characters, Places & Things in ''Vineland'', compiled by Douglas Albert (PDF)]

</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

The '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''' allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section. '''SPOILER ALERT!!!''' Many of the spoilers from the Reader's Guide are still in the page-by-page annotations. See the [[Talk:Vineland_Page_by_Page|talk page.]]
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [https://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon Writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pynchon]
* [https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/spermatikos-logos/ Shipwreck Library (was The Modern Word) Pynchon page]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. Along with more of his writings on Pynchon, it's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
Below are some of the images you will find on Pynchon Wiki. {{Special:Newimages}}

Enjoy...

Main Page

2025-07-08T23:53:15Z

WikiAdmin: /* External Links */

[[Image:Vineland_cover.jpg|310px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Vineland'' Wiki'''</big>

[https://pynchonwiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Get in touch!''']

*'''Purchase ''Vineland''''': [https://amzn.to/4eBDU1O Paperback] | [https://amzn.to/4eBzpEd Hardcover]
*[https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_odkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_osacat=0&_sop=12 '''Search EBay for ''Vineland''''']

This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland''. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Vineland covers|''Vineland'' covers]], read the [[Reviews of Vineland|reviews]], or [[Vineland Obs|provide insights or observations]].

<div id="announcement-home">
'''The ''Vineland'' Wiki''' 
The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

[[Vineland_Playlist|'''Vineland Playlist: Songs and artists mentioned in ''Vineland''']]

'''Download:''' 
[http://www.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/download/Vineland-Index_D-Albert.pdf "Index of Fictional Characters, Places & Things in ''Vineland'', compiled by Douglas Albert (PDF)]

</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

The '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''' allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section. '''SPOILER ALERT!!!''' Many of the spoilers from the Reader's Guide are still in the page-by-page annotations. See the [[Talk:Vineland_Page_by_Page|talk page.]]
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [https://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon Writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pynchon]
* [https://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/pynchon/spermatikos-logos/ Shipwreck Library (was The Modern Word) Pynchon page]
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [httpz://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. Along with more of his writings on Pynchon, it's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?s=Pynchon his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
Below are some of the images you will find on Pynchon Wiki. {{Special:Newimages}}

Enjoy...

Main Page

2025-07-06T22:35:14Z

WikiAdmin:

[[Image:Vineland_cover.jpg|310px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Vineland'' Wiki'''</big>

[https://pynchonwiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Get in touch!''']

*'''Purchase ''Vineland''''': [https://amzn.to/4eBDU1O Paperback] | [https://amzn.to/4eBzpEd Hardcover]
*[https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_odkw=Thomas+Pynchon+Vineland&_osacat=0&_sop=12 '''Search EBay for ''Vineland''''']

This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland''. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Vineland covers|''Vineland'' covers]], read the [[Reviews of Vineland|reviews]], or [[Vineland Obs|provide insights or observations]].

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==Page 323==
'''"pasture... meadows"''' 
Traditionally [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland Vinland] was translated as "wine-land", then in more recent times as "pasture-, meadow-land". This kinda seems like a "booyah" moment in the novel, as the first visions/possible version of the family reunion (see pages 232 & 246) have to do with an "impossible hillside" and a "wineland", whereas now when we begin the reality version, it is actually a "pasture-, meadow-land".

'''"Soon toasters and toaster ovens, wood fires, RV kitchen microwaves--just-made coffee"'''" 
This bit, as well as the bar-b-queing later in the chapter, is a signature Pynchon passage; in spite of all the chaos and conflict in whichever book, humanity is anchored by big, communal feeds. See the infamous Banana Breakfast in "Gravity's Rainbow", the State Picnic (p. 1047) in "Against the Day." It's a great opportunity for Pynchon to make his lists, and while some critics have complained that his characters lack humanity, these picnics/parties are usually so evocative and warm it extends to and encompasses the individuals involved.

'''"branching invisible fractals of smell"'''[[Image:Fractal.png|thumb|Julia Set, a Fractal|right]] 
The fractal is a fairly recent (and fashionable) mathematical concept. The property that makes a thing fractal is that it looks the same at any scale -- self-similarity over scale. For this to be true, the fractal object must be made of pieces that look like tiny versions of the whole, and these pieces must be made of similar looking, littler pieces...on to infinity. (The notion of "complications that might go on forever," [[#Page 381|p. 381]], is very Pynchonesque.) Computer graphics programs based on this principle can create complexities that increase as long as you care to wait. Pynchon's use of "fractal" here draws a great word-picture of crinkly, cartoon-like aroma waves tickling noses of all sizes. He's obviously been keeping up with his reading. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals Wikipedia on Fractals...]

'''"Los Sombras"''' 
Spanish for "the shadows." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_shadows The Shadows] were an early-60s/pre-FabFour British instrumental quartet who were also the backing group for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard Cliff Richard]. They are apparently still working to this day.

==Page 324==
'''"Octomaniacs"''' 
players of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_eights crazy eights] card game.

'''"...portable TV sets bootlegged onto the cable..."''' 
Even the leftist/purist Traverse/Beckers are addicted to the Tube. Maybe that's how come they let Vond and his fascists take over.

==Page 325==
'''"Tokkata & Fuji"''' 
A pun on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor%2C_BWV_565 Toccata and Fugue]. Toccata (from Italian toccare, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of classical music for a keyboard instrument or plucked string instrument featuring sections of virtuosic passagework, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer. A fugue is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices", irrespective of whether the work is vocal or instrumental.

'''"Bach's 'Wachet Auf'... one of the best tunes ever to come out of Europe"''' 
It's Resurrection Day! And weirdly enough, this does wake up the Thanatoids. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachet_auf'' Wachet Auf''] (German: "Sleepers Awake") is a cantata written in 1731 by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach Johann Sebastian Bach].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Ten_Virgins associated Biblical text] refers not to Resurrection Day, but to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_of_Christ Second Coming of Christ], i.e. the day of reckoning or Last Judgement. This is the final chapter of ''Vineland''.

'''"What was a Thanatoid, at the end of the long dread day, but memory?"''' 
The answer at last. Sort of.

Possibly trapped in the memories of what "could have been"?

Or, memory of the feeling you would never die? See Zoyd & Mucho's convo on pg. [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_313 313].

'''"timing adapted to the rigors of a disco percussion track"''' 
Listen to a cheesy electronic rendition of "Wachet Auf" on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msNi7Rj0WnQ YouTube].

'''"able to make the bluest Thanatoid believe, however briefly, in resurrection, they woke, the Thanatoids woke"''' 

It seems that this is where the "possibility of the future" and "memory" collide into reality, which brings Weed's death as the focal point? Is it now that Weed (once one of their own) and his death has atoned the Thanatoids? Now that the "real" reunion has begun in real space-time? See pgs 246 & 232-233. What if we see Rex and Weed's dialogue on 232-233 as some celluloid, Tubal alternate version of what "could have happened"? Possibly a dream that Prairie had after hearing the facts and seeing the 24fps films? A dream that somehow these "sleepers" had access to???? But once the dream is "over" (reality happens) they can awake? My mind just exploded.

'''"the peculiar band between 6200 and 7000 KHZ"''' 
Why peculiar? The FCC has designated the frequencies 6200-7000 KHz for "various fixed and mobile services; maritime and aeronautical." Pirate radio (unlicensed broadcasting of FM radio, AM radio, or shortwave signals over a significant coverage area that could be picked up by listeners. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio]) broadcasts between the shortwave frequencies of 6300 and 7000 KHZ. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_North_America Wikipedia]:
:In the USA pirate radio is frequently, but not always associated with anarchism which considers governmental spectrum regulatory schemes as favoring the interests of large corporations. Therefore, some anarchists consider pirate radio transmissions to be a challenge to that authority.

'''"false cities of gold"''' 
Pynchon playfully compares these mythical malls to the seven cities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quivira_and_Cíbola Cibola], which kept [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1squez_de_Coronado Coronado] on the run so long.

==Page 326==
'''"The Noir Center Mall"''' 
The shops are puns on famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir film noir] titles: "Bubble Indemnity" = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) ''Double Indemnity'']; "Lounge Good Buy" = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(film) ''The Long Goodbye'']; "Mall Tease Flacon" = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film) ''The Maltese Falcon'']; "The Lady 'n' the Lox" = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_lake ''Lady In the Lake''].

[[Image:BradburyBuilding.jpg|thumb|Inside the Bradbury Building|right]]'''"Bradbury Building"''' 
In addition to film noir, the famous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_building Bradbury Building] appears in the cyberpunk film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner ''Blade Runner''] and is mentioned in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_735-760#Page_752 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Built in 1893, the building, which contains a central courtyard with skylight, indeed resembles a shopping mall, although it's actually still an office building.

==Page 327==
'''"Che, you're rilly evil"''' 
The relationship between Prairie and Che echoes that of Frenesi and DL.

'''"Brent Musberger"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Musburger Brent Musburger] (b. 1939) (the name is misspelled in ''Vineland'') is a TV sportscaster, most famous throughout the 1970s and '80s as the face and voice of CBS Sports. His signature phrase was "YOU are looking LIVE!!! at...(insert city or venue name here)" This was always delivered with maximum enthusiasm, no matter the event. When CBS let him go it created something of a media splash; he quickly resurfaced at ABC. He relates to the next line, and Pynchon's theme about people who are observers rather than makers of reality.

==Page 328==
'''"Maybellene"''' 
What's the joke here? Maybelline eye makeup? Or the chase element in [http://www.chuckberry.com/ Chuck Berry's] song? Probably all of the above, plus a Pynchonian takeoff on Muzak (the "oboe-and-string rendition.") Although a good rockin' tune, Berry's "Maybellene" doesn't have much of a melody, so the idea of an instrumental version, particularly for oboe and strings, seems absurd. See also "New Age mindbarf" on [[#Page 330|p. 330]]. [ [http://www.chuckberry.com/music/lyrics/maybellene.htm Lyrics to ''Maybellene''...] ] [ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvKDr8AgvK8 Listen on YouTube] ]

==Page 329==
'''"agoramania"''' 
shopping frenzy.

From what I can find, it means a mania or craving for public/open spaces.

'''"some with runny noses..."''' 
Another "hidden poem."

==Page 330==
'''"New Age mindbarf"''' 
Pynchon's opinion of the New Age Movement which trended toward the spiritual, the organic and the Politically Correct, and spawned mostly trite philosophies and trite music.

==Page 331==
'''"Times she liked to flirt, times she was out to hurt,..."''' 
Minipoem.

==Page 332==
'''"It's like they's programmed for it or somethin'"''' 
Fleur's comment on why gentlemen prefer black and red underwear on "bad girls" is reminiscent of Pirate Prentiss' involuntary, ejaculatory response to a certain photo, delivered to him via V2, in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

'''"Night and Blood"''' 
Echoes of Katje and Pudding in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_226-236#Page_232 ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - p.232-233]: "She waits for him...white body and black uniform-of-the-night.... Lipstick...prevails like blood.... She is naked now, except for a long sable cape and black boots with court heels. Her only jewelry is a silver ring with an artificial ruby...an arrogant gout of blood..."

==Page 333==
'''"Inpo mode"''' 
Inpo is the Ninjitsu Art of Hiding.

'''"Juvenile Hall badasses"''' 
More badasses.

'''"conical black heaps smoked, glowed, flared here and there into visible fire"''' 
The scene in which Vond burns the 24fps footage is quite horrible -- and extremely important. By destroying 24fps' records of the Sixties, he clears the way for his rewritten fascist version. With no evidence to prove him wrong, who would dare to argue with "official" history?

==Page 334==
'''"a restored Vicky"''' 
Victorian house. The San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding areas has many Victorian-era homes.

'''"not only dropping but also picking up, dribbling and scoring three-pointers..."''' 
Total basketball metaphor for Hector's name dropping.

==Page 337==
'''"Miraculous Medal"''' 
The Miraculous Medal makes an appearance in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M#miraculous-medal ''Gravity's Rainbow''] and in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Miraculous_Medal ''V.'']

'''"Ernie Triggerman, and his partner, Sid Liftoff"''' 
More cool names.

These are probably a parody of James Nicholson and Samuel Arkoff, founders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Pictures American International Pictures], which produced teen-oriented low-budget movies throughout the 1950's, 60's and 70's.

'''"bizcochos"''' 
Spanish for "biscuits, cookies."

'''"lizard-skin etui"''' 
Etui = a four letter word made of odd letters, therefore useful to crossword constructors, and meaning "small case." Pynchon does crossword puzzles? Maybe he just loves words.

==Page 338==
'''"arranged for Sid to work off the beef...[by making] an antidrug movie..."''' 
This plea-bargain echoes a real deal cut by ''Godfather'' producer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_%28film_producer%29 Robert Evans] to avoid doing hard time on a cocaine bust. Evans made several anti-drug spots for TV, as promised, but apparently (according to subsequent courtroom testimony) he kept on using the stuff anyway.

'''1811's''' 
Federal civil service code for a criminal investigator.

'''"Roy Ibble"''' 
Yet another cool name.

==Page 339==
'''"sudden monster surge of toilet flushing...and...cold air"''' 
A new Pynchonian fable: Dope paranoia results in Hollywood fog bank.

'''"when he saw the screen go blank... 'From now on, I'm watching you.'"''' 
This section - which carries over to pg. 340 - screams of Big Brother and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four George Orwell's ''1984''], which we are again reminded in this section, is the current year in the novel. Cf. [[Chapter_15#Page_353|page 353]]

==Page 340==
'''"Larry Talbot"''' 
[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002574/ Lawrence Talbot], played by Lon Chaney Jr., was the cursed man who changed into the Wolfman in the Universal Studios Wolfman films of the 1940s.

'''"childhood religion... Soto Zen"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soto_Zen Soto Zen] is one of two major Zen Buddhist traditions in Japan. It emphasizes daily practice of meditative "wall-gazing".

==Page 341==

'''"but the warmer temperature brings out more of the flavor, don't you think."''' 

Pretty funny since Bud Light is like one of the most unflavorful beers of all time. Yes, a lot of complex beers (esp. darker beers, Belgian beers, etc.) are better enjoyed at warmer temps, but definitely not Bud Light!

==Page 342==
'''"Sounds real natural to me."''' 
A math joke. 2.71828 is "e," the root of the series of "natural" logarithms.

'''"43'd"''' 
half of 86'd. (See "octogenarihexation" on [[Chapter 9#Page 186|p. 186]].) Being 43'd is like being a little pregnant.

==Page 343==
'''Song: "Es Posible."''' 
Music-biz schtick at the end makes it even funnier. Also hilarious: the pre-Castro Cuban theme park, Holiday For Fascists.

==Page 344==
'''"board fading"''' 
fading slowly and smoothly, as if via a volume slider on a recording studio control board.

==Page 345==
'''"her 59 cents on the male dollar..."''' 
Female/male income inequality.

'''"Tubal fantasies...pushing their propaganda message that cops-are-only-human...turning agents of government repression into sympathetic heroes. Nobody thought it was peculiar anymore, no more than the routine violations of constitutional rights...now absorbed into...American expectations."''' 
Good points, all, but isn't it a bit out of character for Frenesi the Betrayer, the biggest cop lover in the novel, to be fronting these thoughts for Pynchon? What's happening here, we think, is that Pynchon is starting to set up Frenesi for her rehabilitation as part of the big Happy Ending.

==Page 346==
'''"the Meese Police"''' 
Reagan's DOJ (Department of Justice) head, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Meese Edwin Meese].

==Page 347==
'''"Mad Dog Vond"''' 
Echoes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart Humphrey Bogart] as Mad Dog Roy Earle in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sierra_%28film%29 ''High Sierra'']. But Vond really is crazy.

'''"Since '81, kids were coming in all on their own askin about careers..."''' 
Too true, too sad, and it undercuts the Happy Ending rather seriously (at least as a pointer to the real world.)

==Page 348==
'''"in the movie of his life story"''' 
A not-quite-made-up film.

==Page 349==
'''Vond is "waitin' for somethin'."''' 
OK, but what? Reluctantly we must point out that none of Pynchon's many explanations bear close examination. (See footnote to the plot synopsis, Chapter 4.)

Cf. [[Chapter_15#Page_353|page 353]] for a possible explanation of what Vond is waiting for.

==Page 350==
'''"Perez Prado"''' 
Cuban bandleader, "King of the Mambo."

'''"the pink slip to his heart"''' 
A pink slip is a title of ownership for a car. Before the days of automobile titles, the portion of a California car registration that conveyed ownership was colored pink. Hence the brag in the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" about "I got the pink slip, daddy!" (meaning, "I'm holding the paperwork required to stake the LDC on a streetlight drag race, so whatchu waitin' for, dude?")

==Page 351==
'''"Pretend there's a frame around [your parents], pretend they're a show you're watching..."''' 
Once again, TV is America's common reference point.

'''"'Uh-oh,' said Frenesi."''' 
Frenesi refuses to cross the airport picket line. This is a bit on the too-little-too-late side for a professional class-traitor, but it's also quite believable.

==Page 352==
[[Image:ThreeStooges.jpg|thumb|The Three Stooges|right]]'''"the bowl haircut, etc."''' 
Another reference to The Three Stooges ... Moe's bowl haircut. Cf. [[Chapter_9#Page_149|page 149]]

'''"all 'em deeply personal li'l ones and zeros got changed to somebody else's"''' 
Roy Ibble, Flash's former handler, explains the computer file deletions, and carries on Pynchon's binary metaphor.

==Page 353==
'''"Please, no more..."''' 
Ibble crumbles in the face of Flash's anger. This is the only the first in a series of auspicious (but highly improbable) turns of the plot. The Hollywood Happy Ending is beginning.

'''"REX-84"''' 
Short for Reagan's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84 Readiness Exercise 1984], a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency.

Applying "paranoid logic" to the information in the above-mentioned Wikipedia article, let us suppose that Oliver North, one of the designers of the REX 84 readiness exercise, intended that it be used, exercise in name only, in conjunction with a US invasion of Nicaragua to oust the Sandinista government, which he opposed in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra Iran-Contra Affair]. This corresponds with DL's prediction on page 264-265 and Hector's intuition on page 339-340. Furthermore, let's pretend that REX 84 takes place at the time described in the novel, late summer of 1984, instead of the spring of 1984, as Wikipedia states. This will go a long way in explaining some of the action in the 1984 parts of the novel.

==Page 354==
'''"...Midol America..."''' 
Another low Pynchon pun ("middle-America") referring to the popular brand of menstrual medicine.

'''"...the destined losers whose only redemption would have to come through their usefulness to the State law-enforcement apparatus, which was calling itself 'America,' though somebody must have known better."''' 
This describes Frenesi and Flash, though it could also describe the larger preterite population of the novel. "...law enforcement apparatus...calling itself America..." underscores Pynchon's cold fury at the process via which Frenesi/America falls for the lies of the fascists.

==Page 355==
'''"Triglyph Productions"''' 
Triglyph = three (you-name-em) letters, like ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.

'''"Panaflex"'''[[Image:Panaflex.jpg|thumb|Panaflex 35mm Movie Camera|right]] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panaflex Panaflex] was an innovative 35mm studio camera, made by Panavision, Inc. It's the world standard, used for everything from wide-screen epics to deodorant commercials. It makes a nice contrast with all the "underground" Arris and Auricons.

'''"The Bryant Gumbel Story"''' 
TV personality of the same generation as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Musburger Brent Musburger]. Gumbel began as a sportscaster, then became a "Today Show" host, and is now doing sports on HBO.

==Page 356==
'''"...one slip of the tongue..."''' 
Arguably the worst joke in any of Pynchon's novels. Gross!

'''"How to get an Italian Woman Pregnant."''' 
Three versions of this joke:

:'''Q:''' How do you get an Italian woman pregnant? '''A:''' And they say the Italians are stupid!

:'''Q:''' How do you get an Italian woman pregnant? '''A:''' Fuck her.

:'''Q:''' How do you get an Italian woman pregnant? '''A:''' Come in her shoes and the flies will do the rest!

'''"I'm a Cop" (Billy Barf and the Vomitones)''' 
Their "3-note blues" is a classic:

Fuck you, mister, 
Fuck your sister, 
Fuck your brother, 
Fuck your mother, 
Fuck your pop — 
Hey! I’m a cop! 

Yeah, fuck you, yuppie, 
Fuck your puppy, 

Fuck your baby, 
Fuck your lady, 
Yes I can, 
Hey! I’m the Man!

==Page 358==
'''"Starting with a small used trailer..."''' 
This brief flashback telling the story of Zoyd's house includes a typically Pynchon-esque fable about "prehistoric" (and mythical) 5/8-inch plumbing fittings.

'''"full scale kvetchathon"''' 
''kvetch'' = Yiddish for complaint. Hence, a kvetchathon is a marathon bitch session among Van Meter's legendarily bickering family.

'''"kit conversions"''' 
The parts required to convert legal, semi-automatic rifles to full (and illegal) automatic operation are often available in kit form. The kits themselves are not illegal, but they become illegal if installed in non-registered weapons.

==Page 359==
'''"Antinomian"''' 
One who holds that moral law is not binding on Christians. Therefore, as mentioned below, "They believe whatever they do, it's cool with Jesus..." Perhaps Antinomianism is the really extreme flavor of preterite and elect doctrine. So extreme, in fact, that in most circles it's a heresy.

'''"Mrs. Grundy"''' 
A character from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(playwright) Thomas Morton’s] play 'Speed the Plough' (1798). She is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety and is mentioned by various authors from Dickens to Joyce.

'''"motocross"''' 
A cycle race over rough terrain, often desert. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motocross Wikipedia]

'''"May your life be full of lawyers"''' 
Supposedly, the "heavy-dutiest" Mexican curse.

==Page 360==
'''Zoyd's lawyer's voice "suggested Saturday morning more than prime time"''' 
That is, it reminded one of a cartoon character. Lessee, would it be a Smurf or a chipmunk?

'''"What about 'innocent until proven guilty'?" "That was another planet, think they used to call it America, long time ago, before the gutting of the Fourth Amendment. You were automatically guilty the minute they found that marijuana growing on your land."''' 
Pynchon is obviously deeply pissed by this shit (as well he might be); it makes a powerful point in his argument that Big Brother and the Fascists have won. "Another planet" echoes the allegorical conversation between Zoyd and Vond on p. 300.

'''"Y-You mean...life isn't Vegas?"''' 
A very funny line, though (in context) rather ominous as well.

==Page 361==
'''"Musso and Frank's"''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musso_%26_Frank_Grill Musso & Frank Grill] is a famous old-time Hollywood restaurant, established in 1919.

'''"the Grand Canyon"''' 
A lot of detail is packed into a few sentences. Looks like Pynchon has been there, too.

'''"Tex Wiener"''' 
Actor Tex Weiner was on ''General Hospital'' with Sally Kirkland. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Hospital ''General Hospital''] is the longest-running ABC Daytime American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network

'''"...fooled once again by the uniform..."''' 
So Frenesi comes by her weakness for sadistic uniformed cops genetically, via Sasha? Or is this something about how opposites need and create each other?

'''"Weww -- it's oow rubbish i'n'i'?"''' 
Well, it's all rubbish, isn't it? Pynchon's fabulous ear again.

==Page 362==
'''"off the scale"''' 
Techno rap, meaning too great to measure, pins the meter, etc.

'''"Naugahyde"''' 
An artificial material designed to resemble leather, made from fabric coated with rubber or vinyl resin.

'''"red-and-gold-flocked"''' 
Flocking is powdered wool or cloth sprinkled onto material (here, wallpaper) producing a raised pattern.

'''"Did they scream?"''' 
A cheap, if effective, trick: Pynchon switches POV (narrators) in mid-scene, giving the tale to producer Sid, and twists the knife by making him playfully reluctant to part with details, so Zuniga has to beg.

'''"Too bad we can't use it."''' 
Christ! Have we been watching Zuniga's damn movie all this time? Directed by Frenesi???

'''"Kissing a young pale melon, under a golden pregnant lollapalooza of a moon."''' 
Sasha's dream is sweet and surreal, but it seems insufficiently motivated. Would she really forgive Frenesi so easily?

==Page 363==
'''"Holocaust Pixels.'''" 
Cool name for a rock band -- and another TV reference. ([[Chapter 12#Page_226|See note, p. 226.]])

Song: "Like a Meat Loaf." 
Great song! Also the Return of the Thanatoid Lunch Meat. Also an echo of Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues."

'''The Thanatoids are "acting rowdier than DL or Takeshi had ever seen them."''' 
The only reverberation of the big flap that sent the karmic adjustment duo racing off for Shade Creek in the last episode. The Happy Ending rolls on.

==Page 364==
'''"...just a couple o' clicks..."''' 
Clicks = kilometers.

'''"Bardo"''' 
Bardo is the after-death realm in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_book_of_the_dead ''Tibetan Book of the Dead'']. The trick is to avoid rebirth, but most people fuck up and let themselves be trapped in a new life. Weed tells of looking for a just-fertilized egg in which to be reborn, "seeking out men and women in the act of sex...in a...smoke-tarnished district of sex shows and porno theaters." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Brothers The Mitchell Brothers] atmosphere is cute. In Tibet a lama keeps whispering the instructions in your dead ear so you don't make these little boo-boos ("couldn't find 'em, time ran out"). Pynchon implies that it's those with "too much still on [their minds]," i.e., unfinished business, that can't quite get permanently dead.

==Page 365==
'''"But what if I am the payback? If your account is zeroed out at last?"''' 
Weed's response to Prairie's offer is a little inconclusive, but note the zero.

'''"Thanatoids dream, though not always when we think we do--"''' 
Weed's dream is extremely powerful and the image is quite writerly. Is the coroner he's looking for "to reveal to the world at last my murder, my murderers" really Pynchon? Are the "companions" who keep trying to find this coroner the readers of Vineland? Faithful hippies? Those who refuse to buy the rewritten version of the Sixties? All of the above? Prairie says it's DL & Takeshi, Weed thinks maybe it's his parents. It might even be the Pisk sisters.

==Page 366==
'''"It was all for love... It was political... A rebel cop... The orders of a repressive regime..."''' 
Pynchon seems aware that his readers (the "companions") may be confused.

'''"Sometimes I think it could be my parents"''' 
Recall ([[Chapter_11#Page_206|page 206 notes]]) that Weed is based partly on Pynchon himself. ''Vineland's'' dedication is "For my mother and father". So this passage could be Pynchon speaking of or to his own parents.

'''"higher justice"''' 
God, karma, Karmic Adjusters, or Emersonism (cf. [[Chapter_15#Page_369|page 369]]), as opposed to the Department of Justice.

'''Prairie and Weed "soon to become an item"''' 
This is the real happy ending, suggesting that young kids may seek out the truth about the Sixties. (And not just the clothes!)

'''"Prairie would show him secrets of pachinko..."''' 
But how did she learn them? From DL? Pachinko is a Japanese gaming device used for amusement and prizes and is related to pinball machines. Although originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine. Cf. [[Chapter_8#Page_122|page 122]].

==Page 367==
'''"the Traverse-Becker wingding"''' 
Nice image, suggesting the continuity of the Left although making it a picnic is surely some dark irony. (At least it's not a dinner party.)

'''"Octomaniacs"''' 
again, players of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_eights crazy eights].

'''"the Mother situation"''' 
Nice cinematic touch, superimposing Frenesi and the Mother of Doom (the Queen of Spades).

'''"with Sasha was a woman about forty, who had been a girl in a movie..."''' 
The reunion of Prairie and Frenesi, which has motivated Prairie, and haunted Frenesi, throughout most of the book, is tossed off distressingly quickly, but with at least this one great line.

'''"Commere lemme check those dimples, yes there, they are..."''' 
Sasha's agonizing grandma act is way out of character. We hope! Still, "it's her way of trying to help" ([[#Page 368|p. 368]]).

==Page 368==
You'd think Pynchon would devote a little more ink to the reunion of Frenesi and Prairie, but in fact Frenesi seems to be in the process of fading out here (much as Vond will do in a few pages).

==Page 369==
'''"pasta dishes and grilled tofu contributed by younger elements"''' 
Hello, Becker/Traverse yuppies!

'''"Secret retributions are always restoring the level..."''' 
This marvelous quote from Emerson is deeply optimistic, and goes a long way toward buying off the Happy Ending. Contrasts nicely with Lombroso's "misoneism," the negative feedback loop by which society resists change.

It also provides a counter to the Orwellian (in Pynchon's view) Department of Justice that sponsors Brock Vond and CAMP, as well as a counterpoint to the Eastern idea of karma.

'''"Ask Crocker 'Bud' Scantling"''' 
The Happy Ending continues, as we learn of Crocker 'Bud' Scantling's karmic payoff under the wheels of a chip truck.

==Page 370==
'''"Lux Unlimited"''' 
A lux is a unit of luminosity equal to 1 candela sterradian per square meter. Drop that into your next bar room argument. 

Lux is Latin for light. "Fiat Lux", or "Let there be light", is the motto of the University of California.

'''"Take care of your dead, or they'll take care of you."''' 
Confirmation of what the Thanatoids really are ([[#Page 325|see p. 325]]). Also a nice restatement of Santayana's famous quote about "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it (or retake the course)."

'''"Say, Jim"''' 
The title of this made-up half-hour sitcom (a black version of ''Star Trek'') is a reference both to Bones' habitual conversational opening to Captain James Kirk, and to Afro-American slang in which "Jim" is an all-purpose (and generally negative, being short for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws "Jim Crow"]) form of address. This is also another digital gag (white becoming black = zero becoming one).

It also reflects the cultural change in mass entertainment that happened between the sixties and the eighties.

'''"Zoyd and Flash went off looking for beer"''' 
Flash surfaces. No point, really, except for the overall reconciliation Pynchon is forcing on the book.

'''"Robert Musil"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musil Robert Musil] was an Austrian novelist (1880-1942), whose Proustian style was marked by subtle psychological analysis. His works include ''Young Torless'' and ''The Man Without Qualities''.

''Young Torless'' mixes homoerotic sadism with philosophical discussions of imaginary numbers, so it is relevant to ''Against the Day''. ''The Man Without Qualities'' is a thinly disguised portrait of Walter Rathenau, who is invoked several times in ''Gravity's Rainbow''. So Pynchon is poking fun at himself.

==Page 371==
'''"...talking back to the tube..."''' 
The Beckers and Traverses are politically hip, shown by their talking back, and their suspicion that the "prefascist twilight" is really just "the light...coming from millions of Tubes all showing the same bright colored shadows..." TV as the true opiate of the masses -- or, as the NY commies used to say, "de messes."

==Page 372==
Zoyd feels sorry for Flash, the "unfortunate sucker" who's still with Frenesi; he sees "the need behind the desperado lamps" (eyes). Nice phrase, nice rendition of the healing power of time and distance, and a sweet way to take leave of Zoyd, who seems to have found some peaceful place to rest at least for the moment.

==Page 373==
'''"Minute the tube got hold of you folks, that was it..."''' 
The kid (who speaks for Pynchon, of course) is right. It's funny how so few of us saw the future, fought the Tube. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan McLuhan] was right too, but we only thought we knew what he was talking about.

'''"gold-handled chainsaw"''' 
Sheriff Willis Chunko's celebrated anti-pot weapon takes us full circle from/to Zoyd's ladylike purse-sized model in [[Chapter 1|Chapter 1]].

'''"monster Mopars dialed and eager"''' 
Mopar = the parts division of Chrysler Motors = (here) engines. Dialed = souped up. This is at least the second "dialed" reference in Vineland. It's hot-rod talk, and means more or less the same as the now old-fashioned "blue-printed." The dials refer to a machinist's dial indicators, used to bring once-stock engines into more-than-perfect condition and tune.

==Page 374==
'''"speeding after moonset"''' 
Like in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road ''Thunder Road''] [1958], the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum Robert Mitchum] bootlegging thriller.

'''"quaquaversal beard"''' 
"Quaquaversal" is a geological term meaning "turned or pointing in every direction." It's a good description for a wiry beard.

'''"...go find [Vond] and cancel his series for him..."''' 
Another TV referent.

'''"found it easier now to make out...her own...face"''' 
Now that Prairie has met Frenesi she can see her own face more clearly in Zoyd's. That is, she's not Vond's daughter. More Happy Ending.

==Page 375==
'''"...down out of [the helicopter], hooked by harness and cable to the mother ship above, came Brock Vond..."''' Is Vond's deus ex machina appearance to Prairie a dream? It could be; she was asleep. Then again, "Brock, whom his colleagues were calling 'Death From Slightly Above,' had been out [practicing]." And remember the Madwoman In the Attic ([[Chapter 13#Page 274|p. 274]]).

Pynchon tells you it's not a dream: "The beat ... woke her" and on the next page "she came fully awake".

'''"Death From Slightly Above"''' 
"Mors Ab Alto" or "Death from Above" is the motto of the US 7th Strategic Bomber Wing ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Bomb_Wing Wikipedia]). In the late 1960's and early 1970's they were famous for the "carpet bombing" of Vietnam. Brock Vond flies somewhat lower.

'''"Huey slicks"'''[[Image:UH-1.jpg|thumb|UH-1 Huey Slick|right]] 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-1_Iroquois UH-1 Iroquois helicopter] was first designated HU-1 (for "Helicopter, Utility" in backwards Army nomenclature) which led to its nickname "Huey". Although Hueys have been used in a wide variety of roles worldwide, they are closely associated with the Vietnam War, where they were heavily employed. The "slick" version of the Huey lacked external weapons pods, and was mainly used for evacuation and troop transport.

'''"more recaps on this subject than Mark C. Bloome"''' 
Bloome was the owner of a chain of popular tire stores in southern California, the Mark C. Bloome Tire Company.

'''"The original plan had been to go in..., come down vertical, grab her, and winch back up and out--"''' 
Why does Vond want to abduct Prairie? Lust? Pure evil? This is never adequately explained. There's a bit of chat in [[Chapter 14]] discussing Vond's interest in Prairie, but it's not developed any further.

==Page 376==
'''"The key is rapture."''' 
Earlier Vond explained the disappearance of the CotS students the same way. ([[Chapter 12#Page 248|See note, p. 248.]]) Also, it is Frenesi's rapture (or "frenzy") over being dominated that enables Vond to have his way with her.

The Rapture occurs along with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_of_Christ Second Coming of Christ], telegraphed to the Thanatoids on [[Chapter_15#Page_325|page 325]].

'''"Her tits, master--"''' 
Roscoe becomes Dwight Frye, Vampire Vond's Renfield. ("Rats, master, you promised me rats...")

'''Vond glows "unusually white."''' 
More evidence that he's a vampire. (A-and remember, he sleeps with his eyes open!)

Vampires, although deathly pale, don't glow white. They are afraid of light. But ''Angels'' ...

This is Vond's aura of invincibility, as seen on [[Chapter_13#Page_272|page 272]]. He has powered-up his primary weapon.

'''...can't be my father...Preparation H.'''[[Image:PreparationH.jpg|thumb|Preparation H|right]] 
She isn't Frenesi's clone, she has Zoyd's blood in her too. Vond paralyzes her for a second, but she can't be dominated as easily as Frenesi. In the Rapture, only believers are hoisted to heaven. Prairie doesn't believe in Vond's invincibility. And of course, Pynchon breaks the spell with another ass joke.

'''"Some white male far away must have wakened from a dream."''' 
Reagan? Meese? Nixon? The white male God of the Calvinists?

'''"Brock...now being winched back up..."''' 
Film running backward through the projector. The image is great, but there's something troublesome here. If the novel represents the real world (as we must assume it does, or it would be no more than an empty divertissement), what "real" event in 1984 informs Vond's withdrawal and defeat?

Here is a guess. Suppose REX 84 is taken to be a roundup of dissenters prior to a possible invasion of Nicaragua (cf. [[Chapter_15#Page_353|pg. 353 notes]]). It's late summer 1984 in the novel, so let's guess the Traverse-Becker picnic is always held on Labor Day, falling on September 3 in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984 1984]. On September 4, 1984 the Sandinista Front won the Nicaraguan election, considered fair by most international observers. An invasion was no longer possible.

==Page 377==
'''"Asshole, they're all together, one surgical strike..."''' 
Vond is ready to wipe out everyone Frenesi, Flash, Zoyd, Justin, maybe even Prairie just as (presumably) he wiped their computer files earlier.

'''"...[Vond] was gone, following his penis--"''' 
A reprise of the lyrics from "Like a Meat Loaf" ([[Chapter_15#Page 364|p. 364]]): "Well we followed our dicks just a couple o' clicks...")

'''Alexi appears in the clearing, carrying "an old acoustic guitar with Cyrillic stenciling on it, as if he'd been prepared to use it as a weapon."''' 
Like American political folkie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie Woody Guthrie's] guitar, on which the folksinger wrote "This machine kills fascists."

'''"The Movie at Nine"''' 
Pynchon gets into a great male-folksy description of a basketball movie the most developed of any of his synthetic made-for-TV flicks. An elect white team (the Celtics) Vs. a preterite black team (the Lakers). Obviously Pynchon is a Lakers fan. It's a story of great courage, and it sets up Vato and Blood for their "rescue" of the newly Thanatoidized Vond. Vond's car disappears (the way thanatoid vehicles do), and we get a Yurok tale by Vato, implying that by coming to Vineland Brock got too close to the land of the dead (Shade Creek). Maybe that's what woke the Thanatoids up? But by then, V&B Tow is conducting Vond across the River Styxx.

For more on the political/sociological subtext of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakers–Celtics_rivalry#Magic_and_Larry Wikipedia]. The game depicted is probably game 7 of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals 1984 NBA Finals]. Since the game took place on June 12, Pynchon sticks to ''Vineland's'' themes and its late-summer timeline by including the game as a made-for-TV movie.

Pynchon uses Lakers games to anchor his timeline in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Real_Time_and_Narrative_Time_in_Inherent_Vice ''Inherent Vice''].

==Page 378==
'''"Time to lock and load, Blood."''' 
Lock and load = ArmySpeak for "saddle up." Specifically, it means lock on the safety of your firearm and load a live round into the chamber, leaving the weapon armed and ready to fire but safe to carry. (The standard 'Nam response was "Cocked and locked!" meaning "Ready when you are.")

'''"It had been an unusual sort of car..."''' 
Vond's chopper turns into an (underpowered) car, which then disappears itself. Vond's power is fading out and he is too. Cool image, but same problem as above. Did Vond (that is, the totalitarian power freaks he fronts for) fade out in 1984? And if not, isn't it a cheat that he does so in the novel?

==Page 379==
'''"As he drove, Vato told an old Yurok story ..."''' 
Vato's story and Brock Vond's ultimate fate are adaptations of a passage (read it [http://books.google.com/books?id=CrGUkuQx6MYC&lpg=PA422&ots=nnv19rP55u&dq=%22Long%20ago%2C%20Turip%22&pg=PA422#v=onepage&q=%22Long%20ago,%20Turip%22&f=false here]) from ''Yurok Myths''(1976) by A.L. Kroeber. The passage is Kroeber's transcription of a story told to him sometime between 1901 and 1907 by [http://books.google.com/books?id=CrGUkuQx6MYC&lpg=PA419&ots=nnv1anN63x&dq=Captain%20spott%20of%20Rekwoi&pg=PA419#v=onepage&q=Captain%20spott%20of%20Rekwoi&f=false Captain Spott], ferry owner and leader (head man) of the Yurok village Rekwoi.

==Page 380==
'''"You look a lot different ..."''' 
The Yurok myth explains why the bones of a corpse remain after the body vanishes. Pynchon intensifies the castration symbolism.

'''"crankless"''' 
That is, without amphetamines.

==Page 381==
'''"...she and Takeshi finally renegotiated the no-sex clause..."''' 
Happy Ending continues. "Whooee!" says DL.

'''"a fractal halo of complications"''' 

Typical Pynchon light-and-color show -- and the second use of the "fractal" buzzword. (It occurs on [[#Page 323|page 323]], as well.) Are neural networks next?

==Page 382==
'''"an inkjet printer moved along the the meridians of his naked skin"''' 
Here, the Puncutron seems like Kafka's torture/execution machine from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_penal_colony ''In the Penal Colony''], but in reverse.

In acupuncture, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(Chinese_medicine) meridians] are channels in the body through which life-energy flows.

A template for instructing the "teen novices, all in white gi with trainee armbands" in acupuncture was being rendered unto Takeshi's body.

'''"an ivory fescue"''' 
Fescue = a teacher's pointer of high quality.

'''"When the Earth was still a paradise, long, long ago..."''' 
Sister Rochelle's allegory about Hell and Earth may explain a bit about Thanatoids, if you wish to read it that way.

Or perhaps an optimistic view of the end of the Cold War in the Third World, as seen by Pynchon in 1990.

==Page 383==
'''closer to its own chthonian fires''' 
Reference to H.P. Lovecraft's work, most specifically the creature Cthulhu. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonian_%28Cthulhu_Mythos%29 WIKI]

'''"Baby Eros...faceless predators"''' 
This paragraph reads like Pynchon checked his outline, noticed two loose ends (the Kahuna hijack and the monster-stomped laboratory) and tied them up as quickly and crudely as possible. Sloppy work.

Doesn't seem like sloppy work to me, mainly just seems to be saying that no matter how whack or crazy things seem, unexplainable, random coming at them, in the end, it is love that somehow makes sense of it.

'''"despite every Karmic Adjustment resource brought to bear so far"''' 
This provides another motivation for DL & Takeshi's "business" venture.

'''"the night of no white diamonds or even chicken crank"''' 
Chicken crank = the speed Takeshi has been trying to score in the form of chicken feed. There are a number of other references to Takeshi's habitual speed use, not the least of which is his epic journey eastward to the SKA and Puncutron.

'''"the foreign magician and his blond tomato assistant"''' 
Takeshi and DL, of course.

==Page 384==
'''"Russian Johnny B. Goode"''' 
No happy-ending complete without Chuck Berry! Or does he mean "Back In the USSR?" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_B._Goode "Johnny B. Goode"] is a seminal 1958 rock and roll song by Chuck Berry, ranked by ''Rolling Stone'' as the seventh greatest song ever on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/chuck-berry/johnny-b-goode.html Lyrics...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg YouTube]

'''"You can come back...take me any place..."''' 
Prairie longs for Vond to come back and abuse her. It must be her genetic predilection for the uniform. Or, perhaps the desire to find out what was heavy enough to make her mom split. It's a bit sick, but maybe Pynchon knows his characters (and the human character) better than we do. ("Every woman adores a fascist / The boot in the face, the brute / Brute heart of a brute like you." "Daddy," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_plath Sylvia Plath]) In any case, Pynchon "saves" it by having Desmond return. When it comes to preterite, what can out-pret a girl's dog?

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* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
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: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. It's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

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==Page 294==
'''"But when he found out about Prairie...something else, something from his nightmares of forced procreation, must have taken over, because later, in what could only be crippled judgment, Brock was to turn and go after the baby and, noticing Zoyd in the way, arrange for his removal too."''' 
This explains Vond's attack on Zoyd in [[Chapter 4]] -- but note how "crippled judgment" buys off Pynchon's lack of clear motivation for this series of events.

Brock's nightmares are discussed on [[Chapter_13#Page_274|page 274]]. In Pynchon's symbolic system Vond is placed in opposition to life.

'''A great joke about the huge brick of weed that Zuniga plants at Zoyd's pad. "Let me guess," says Zoyd, thinking of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's monolith, "2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]." "Try 20,000 Years In Sing Sing [1933]," replies Zuniga.''' 
This joke is especially funny because both titles include numbers, and because both guys include scholarly references to the years the films were made. (Pynchon, of course, has been doing this throughout, but this is the first time he does it in dialogue).

A monolith of pot also appears in ''Inherent Vice''. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_33 pg. 33].

==Page 297==
'''"Following the wisdom of the time"''' 
Pynchon refers, with vague disapproval, to the touchie-feelie California notion that men should "get in touch with their feelings" and, presumably, cry their little hearts out. However, Zoyd, who has gotten used to crying, is finding out that, in fact, big boys don't cry.

'''"Museum of Drug Abuse"''' 
Sure, Pynchon.

==Page 298==
'''"gnathic index"''' 
In craniology, the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed as a percent of the latter. Aren't you glad you asked?

'''"I know how to take care of Frenesi, asshole..."''' 
Vond is unbearably cruel and sadistic in this interview with Zoyd. Unlike the hero of "Leader of the Pack," the lyrics to which Pynchon uses for a joke on p. 270, Vond is both bad and evil. What an asshole! And he really hates hippies presumably for being childish. But who's really being childish here?

==Page 299==
'''"who feared nothing unless it was taking apart a transmission"''' 
Vond's Scorpiopic self-destructiveness is compared to that of the "beer outlaws" of Zoyd's youth ([[Chapter 4#Page 37|see page 37]]). This observation is quite accurate: Only advanced automotive nerds can take transmissions apart (and get them back together again).

'''"those rectal spasms of fear"''' 
Zoyd once again experiences this not-so-leit-but-definitely-motif in ''Vineland''. (See also pages [[Chapter 1#Page 10|10]], [[Chapter 4#Page 45|45]], [[Chapter 8#Page 116|116]], [[Chapter 11#Page 207|207]].)

==Page 300==
'''"Not the Earth Brock was acquainted with"''' 
A great line!

'''"...squealing, screaming guitar solos that defied any number of rules, that also lifted the blood and reassured the soul..."''' 
Could be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix Jimi Hendrix]. Or a description of ''Vineland''. But mainly it gives Zoyd an idea that the "real" world still exists, and so will he.

==Page 301==
'''"she calls up one night..."''' 
Vond seems interested in making sure that Frenesi won't be able to find Zoyd and Prairie. Of course this is contradicted by the "public act of craziness" that Vond has insisted Zoyd perform.

On pg. 304 it's Hector, not Vond, who describes the mental disability scam. He says they can keep track of him so long as he picks up his checks, just like one of Hector's Paid Informants. No nationwide publicity is required.

'''"I have her power of attorney, she gave me that even before she gave me her body..."''' 
That is, Frenesi surrendered her identity to Vond first; bondage before intercourse. There's a distant echo here of Mississippi bluesman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29 Robert Johnson's] "Traveling Riverside Blues": "She got a mortgage on my body, now, and a lien on my soul."

==Page 302==
'''"the count at 5:30 AM"''' 
Body count, that is a basic security measure in prisons.

==Page 303==
'''"EPT"''' 
Very likely El Paso, Texas. Pynchon has a scene in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677 Against the Day] set in El Paso, and even refers to the city by the same initials.

'''"Agustin Lara tunes"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Lara Augustin Lara] was born in Mexico City in 1896. He began composing songs in 1929, influenced by the popular dances and jazz forms of the 1930s and 40s. He composed well over 400 songs, many of them written for Mexican films. His best known song is probably "Granada." Lara died in 1970.

'''"conjunto"''' 
Spanish for "small band," or "combo."

'''"los vatos de Chiques"''' 
"Chicano dudes."

'''"palabra"''' 

Equivalent in Spanish to "word".

Another instance of Pynchon using this slang is in ''Inherent Vice'' when Bigfoot Bjornson says it to Doc, while also then saying, "semi-palabra" and hooking three fingers like a fang. [will update with pagination]

==Page 306==
[[Image:truckin.jpg|thumb|An R. Crumb Drawing|right]]
'''R. Crumb''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Crumb R. Crumb] is an American illustrator, author of subversive comics. He founded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comix Underground Comix] movement, which wanted to distinguish itself from mainstream comics by including subversive, sexually taboo, and counter-cultural material. Crumb is the subject of a fascinating documentary called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumb_(film) Crumb] (1994).

==Page 307==
'''"Prairie kept waking up every couple hours, all the way back to her old baby ways."''' 
This is true baby stuff. Is Pynchon a daddy? Consider also all the baby details, and Prairie's teenagerhood. This is hard stuff to get from a book, but with Pynchon's genius for bringing research alive you never know.

'''"Mucho Maas"''' 
A pun, of course, on "mucho mas" ("much more", in Spanish). Also (and also "of course") ex-husband of Oedipa Maas, and one of the main characters in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''], in which Mucho is a DJ disgusted by his former incarnation as a used car salesman for a group called N.A.D.A., and becomes dependent on LSD.

==Page 308==
'''Trillium''' 
"this pure specimen of young Californian womanhood of the period, ironed hair down to the small of her back, perfectly bikini-tanned, forever eighteen, sweetly stoned and surrounded by a patchouli haze" A friend of Mucho Maas (a character in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#maas ''The Crying of Lot 49'']: the husband of Oedipa Maas), she greets Zoyd and Prairie at Mucho's townhouse in San Francisco. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium ''Trillium''] is a genus of perennial flowering plants native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium also shows up in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F ''Inherent Vice''].s

'''"Paranoids concert at the Fillmore"''' 
[http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''] A band featured in The Crying of Lot 49. Showing that his writing and his novels all take place in the same fictional universe.

'''"absquatulation"''' 
Absquatulate is a coined word, apparently meaning to make off, or decamp. It also makes an appearance in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day'']. The OED states it to have originated in the mid-19th Century and to have never had a serious application.

==Page 309==
'''"guest stash"''' 
A special supply of smoke for visitors was not uncommon in the houses of serious weedheads at this time. However, since Zoyd can't find the guest stash at Mucho's house he has to roll his own. Bummer!

'''Lawrence of Arabia [song]''' 

May not be intended at all, but I couldn't read this scene - Zoyd singing Prairie to sleep with this tune (before smoking his newly rolled J) - without thinking about the Skip Spence tune, "Lawrence of Euphoria," from his 1969 record, ''Oar''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oar_(Skip_Spence_album) WIKI]

'''Count Drugula... wearing joke-store fangs and a black velvet cape... scattering hits of high-quality acid among fans young and old...''' 
The Count's product makes an appearance on pg. [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13#Page_283 283] in regard to head of A & R at Indolent Records.

'''Charles Manson''' 
Although Manson is most famous for the horrible murders committed by his followers, he was, at one time, an aspiring musician. He even hung out with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson for a time and a recording of his music was released after his trial.

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was also mentioned by Pynchon on page 155 of ''Inherent Vice''.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
An eccentric folk singer who played the ukulele and sang in a strangely beautiful falsetto voice. He's most famous for his version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." He also shows up in ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 310==
'''"unforeseen passion"''' 
A good description of Mucho's love for cocaine.

'''"Dr. Hugo Splanchnick"''' 
The entire Splanchnick sequence is immensely funny, including Pynchon's use of "snoot croaker" to describe the doc's specialty.

This bit is extremely ''Naked Lunch''-esque.

==Page 311==
[[Image:VWbus.jpg|thumb|Painted VW Bus|right]]
'''"stop-me-search-me VW bus"''' 
The epitome of Sixties California hippie culture, which (wonderful to say) continues to survive, everywhere, to this very day.

'''"'Aw' said the dopers, the speech balloon emerging from their tailpipe"''' 

All of a sudden, we're in 'toontown.

==Page 312==

'''Harry J. Anslinger''' 

Harry Jacob Anslinger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger WIKI]

'''"...me entiendes como te digo?"''' 
Spanish for "Unnerstan' what I'm sayin'?"

==Page 313==

'''KQAS''' 
There is a real KQAS 89.3 FM licensed in Warrenton, OR, but "KQAS! Kick-Ass 460 on the AM dial!" is fictitious. Nevertheless, it has a website, www.kqas.com. [http://www.kqas.com] Mucho Maas does the drive-time show. Thanks to whoever created this!

'''"I guess it's over..."''' 
It seems likely that this is Pynchon delivering the "nut paragraph," as journalists call the central idea in a story. This dialogue seems heartfelt -- especially the stuff about the tube ("keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for,") and rock 'n' roll ("just another way to claim our attention,") and "Soon they're gonna be coming after everything, not just drugs but beer, cigarettes, sugar, salt, fat, you name it, anything that could remotely please any of your senses...," and "It was the way people used to talk." (314) Yes, it was.

'''"Just please go careful, Zoyd"''' 
Mucho has made much the same settlement with the establishment that Hub Gates has: joined the approved union, settled down, stopped making a fuss.

'''That you were never going to die... How are they supposed to control a population that knows it'll never die?''' 
Like the Thanatoids?

==Page 314==
'''"''The Best of Sam Cooke'' ... the sermon"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke Sam Cooke] was a singer-songwriter who was a pioneer of Soul music and was shot to death in Los Angeles in 1964. By "the sermon" Pynchon may mean Cooke's song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come_(song) ''A Change is Gonna Come''] which was released just after his death. Listen on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNzxniXxYE here].

'''"Enjoy it while you can, while you're light enough for that glass to hold you."''' 
Prairie on top of the Hip Trip pinball machine is a marvelous image capturing the fragility of the moment, the certainty of loss, age, death.

'''"Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge represents a transition, in the metaphysics of the region"''' [[Image:GoldenGateBridge.jpg|thumb|Golden Gate Bridge|right]] 
Great intro to Zoyd in Vineland.

==Page 315==

'''"the way a firearm is... finality...out to sea"''' 
Suicide?

'''"one guitar and one harmonica, playing the blues"''' 

This is a great metaphorical bit, with this exodus of hippies, signaling the end of a generation: the journey begins with them playing rock'n'roll and then reversing the process through history, until finally, back where it all began, a single person, playing the blues.

==Page 316==

'''Harbor of Refuge'''

The historical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Harbor_of_Refuge Harbor of Refuge] is in Delaware. Here Pynchon seems to be creating the same idea for the west coast, however, a much less developed area over the years. Notice the mention of the Corps of Engineers marina on the following page.

See [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pg. 258]

==Page 317==

'''Eureka-Crescent City-Vineland megalopolis''' 

Since traveling north on Highway 101, and not hitting Vineland until after Eureka, one could surmise that Vineland is located somewhere between Eureka and Crescent City, probably somewhere around [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park]. The actual topography, with mention to Vineland Bay, suggests the Arcata area, possibly transplanted a bit further north, or even possibly a flip on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Bay Delaware Bay]? [see page 316, and Harbor of Refuge].

The city of Arcata (see a satellite view [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=arcata,+California&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.724817,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Arcata,+Humboldt,+California&ll=40.767542,-124.109116&spn=0.2595,0.441513&t=h&z=11 here]) approximately (but not perfectly) matches Pynchon's description of the city of Vineland. It even has the Art Deco bridges Pynchon describes. Arcata, of course, is in Humboldt County. However, the name Vineland and Pynchon's references to grape-growing suggest Mendocino County to the south, since Humboldt and Del Norte were too far northwest to be used for wine grapes in the 1980's and earlier. See also
[[Chapter_1#Page_8|page 8]]. Ultimately, there's no reason for Pynchon to geographically match the real world. In his words from the ''Against the Day'' jacket flap, "Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be."

For more on Arcata and marijuana, see [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L20820100422 this] Reuters article.

==Page 320==
'''"spool tenders, zooglers, water bucks and bull punchers"''' 
Logging jobs.

==Page 321==
'''"Many would be the former tripping partners and old flames who came over the years to deal with each other this way across desktops or through computer terminals, as if chosen in secret and sorted into opposing teams...."''' 
Some folks get on Welfare, and others administer it. Another incarnation of the binary/preterite metaphor.

==Page 322==

'''Vineland the Good''' 

The Vikings were the first to find and settle North America. They called it, "Vineland the Good". Following is an excerpt from ''Studies on the Vineland Voyages'' by Gustav Storm:

"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson Leiv Eriksson] on his home-voyage from Norway to Greenland >>discovered Vineland
the Good<<, an event which, in conjunction with his saving off the coast of
Greenland a shipwrecked crew, got him the surname of >>the Lucky<<).
In Icelandic manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries... derived partly
from Latin sources... the noted traveller Nicholas, abbot of Thingeyre... con-
taining special information... where mention is made of the countries west and
south-west of Iceland, a passage on the discovery of Vineland, which accordingly
can be taken as of very ancient date, and at any rate may come from Nicholas...
>>South of Greenland lies Helluland, next Markland, and from thence it is not far
to Vineland the Good, which some think joins Africa." [http://books.google.com/books?id=1d0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22vineland+the+good%22&source=bl&ots=-X0xA_mGLb&sig=KPaspqNHrkHzr2lEwM0q39fbI6E&hl=en&ei=ey2xSvapEMi0tweLnJjmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22vineland%20the%20good%22&f=false GOOGLE BOOKS LINK]

Also, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland Vinland].

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==Page 294==
'''"But when he found out about Prairie...something else, something from his nightmares of forced procreation, must have taken over, because later, in what could only be crippled judgment, Brock was to turn and go after the baby and, noticing Zoyd in the way, arrange for his removal too."''' 
This explains Vond's attack on Zoyd in [[Chapter 4]] -- but note how "crippled judgment" buys off Pynchon's lack of clear motivation for this series of events.

Brock's nightmares are discussed on [[Chapter_13#Page_274|page 274]]. In Pynchon's symbolic system Vond is placed in opposition to life.

'''A great joke about the huge brick of weed that Zuniga plants at Zoyd's pad. "Let me guess," says Zoyd, thinking of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's monolith, "2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]." "Try 20,000 Years In Sing Sing [1933]," replies Zuniga.''' 
This joke is especially funny because both titles include numbers, and because both guys include scholarly references to the years the films were made. (Pynchon, of course, has been doing this throughout, but this is the first time he does it in dialogue).

A monolith of pot also appears in ''Inherent Vice''. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_33 pg. 33].

==Page 297==
'''"Following the wisdom of the time"''' 
Pynchon refers, with vague disapproval, to the touchie-feelie California notion that men should "get in touch with their feelings" and, presumably, cry their little hearts out. However, Zoyd, who has gotten used to crying, is finding out that, in fact, big boys don't cry.

'''"Museum of Drug Abuse"''' 
Sure, Pynchon.

==Page 298==
'''"gnathic index"''' 
In craniology, the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed as a percent of the latter. Aren't you glad you asked?

'''"I know how to take care of Frenesi, asshole..."''' 
Vond is unbearably cruel and sadistic in this interview with Zoyd. Unlike the hero of "Leader of the Pack," the lyrics to which Pynchon uses for a joke on p. 270, Vond is both bad and evil. What an asshole! And he really hates hippies presumably for being childish. But who's really being childish here?

==Page 299==
'''"who feared nothing unless it was taking apart a transmission"''' 
Vond's Scorpiopic self-destructiveness is compared to that of the "beer outlaws" of Zoyd's youth ([[Chapter 4#Page 37|see page 37]]). This observation is quite accurate: Only advanced automotive nerds can take transmissions apart (and get them back together again).

'''"those rectal spasms of fear"''' 
Zoyd once again experiences this not-so-leit-but-definitely-motif in ''Vineland''. (See also pages [[Chapter 1#Page 10|10]], [[Chapter 4#Page 45|45]], [[Chapter 8#Page 116|116]], [[Chapter 11#Page 207|207]].)

==Page 300==
'''"Not the Earth Brock was acquainted with"''' 
A great line!

'''"...squealing, screaming guitar solos that defied any number of rules, that also lifted the blood and reassured the soul..."''' 
Could be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix Jimi Hendrix]. Or a description of ''Vineland''. But mainly it gives Zoyd an idea that the "real" world still exists, and so will he.

==Page 301==
'''"she calls up one night..."''' 
Vond seems interested in making sure that Frenesi won't be able to find Zoyd and Prairie. Of course this is contradicted by the "public act of craziness" that Vond has insisted Zoyd perform.

On pg. 304 it's Hector, not Vond, who describes the mental disability scam. He says they can keep track of him so long as he picks up his checks, just like one of Hector's Paid Informants. No nationwide publicity is required.

'''"I have her power of attorney, she gave me that even before she gave me her body..."''' 
That is, Frenesi surrendered her identity to Vond first; bondage before intercourse. There's a distant echo here of Mississippi bluesman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29 Robert Johnson's] "Traveling Riverside Blues": "She got a mortgage on my body, now, and a lien on my soul."

==Page 302==
'''"the count at 5:30 AM"''' 
Body count, that is a basic security measure in prisons.

==Page 303==
'''"EPT"''' 
Very likely El Paso, Texas. Pynchon has a scene in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677 Against the Day] set in El Paso, and even refers to the city by the same initials.

'''"Agustin Lara tunes"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Lara Augustin Lara] was born in Mexico City in 1896. He began composing songs in 1929, influenced by the popular dances and jazz forms of the 1930s and 40s. He composed well over 400 songs, many of them written for Mexican films. His best known song is probably "Granada." Lara died in 1970.

'''"conjunto"''' 
Spanish for "small band," or "combo."

'''"los vatos de Chiques"''' 
"Chicano dudes."

'''"palabra"''' 

Equivalent in Spanish to "word".

Another instance of Pynchon using this slang is in ''Inherent Vice'' when Bigfoot Bjornson says it to Doc, while also then saying, "semi-palabra" and hooking three fingers like a fang. [will update with pagination]

==Page 306==
[[Image:truckin.jpg|thumb|An R. Crumb Drawing|right]]
'''R. Crumb''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Crumb R. Crumb] is an American illustrator, author of subversive comics. He founded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comix Underground Comix] movement, which wanted to distinguish itself from mainstream comics by including subversive, sexually taboo, and counter-cultural material. Crumb is the subject of a fascinating documentary called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumb_(film) Crumb] (1994).

==Page 307==
'''"Prairie kept waking up every couple hours, all the way back to her old baby ways."''' 
This is true baby stuff. Is Pynchon a daddy? Consider also all the baby details, and Prairie's teenagerhood. This is hard stuff to get from a book, but with Pynchon's genius for bringing research alive you never know.

'''"Mucho Maas"''' 
A pun, of course, on "mucho mas" ("much more", in Spanish). Also (and also "of course") ex-husband of Oedipa Maas, and one of the main characters in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''], in which Mucho is a DJ disgusted by his former incarnation as a used car salesman for a group called N.A.D.A., and becomes dependent on LSD.

==Page 308==
'''Trillium''' 
"this pure specimen of young Californian womanhood of the period, ironed hair down to the small of her back, perfectly bikini-tanned, forever eighteen, sweetly stoned and surrounded by a patchouli haze" A friend of Mucho Maas, she greets Zoyd and Prairie at Mucho's townhouse in San Francisco. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium ''Trillium''] is a genus of perennial flowering plants native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium also shows up in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F ''Inherent Vice''].s

'''"Paranoids concert at the Fillmore"''' 
[http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''] A band featured in The Crying of Lot 49. Showing that his writing and his novels all take place in the same fictional universe.

'''"absquatulation"''' 
Absquatulate is a coined word, apparently meaning to make off, or decamp. It also makes an appearance in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day'']. The OED states it to have originated in the mid-19th Century and to have never had a serious application.

==Page 309==
'''"guest stash"''' 
A special supply of smoke for visitors was not uncommon in the houses of serious weedheads at this time. However, since Zoyd can't find the guest stash at Mucho's house he has to roll his own. Bummer!

'''Lawrence of Arabia [song]''' 

May not be intended at all, but I couldn't read this scene - Zoyd singing Prairie to sleep with this tune (before smoking his newly rolled J) - without thinking about the Skip Spence tune, "Lawrence of Euphoria," from his 1969 record, ''Oar''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oar_(Skip_Spence_album) WIKI]

'''Count Drugula... wearing joke-store fangs and a black velvet cape... scattering hits of high-quality acid among fans young and old...''' 
The Count's product makes an appearance on pg. [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13#Page_283 283] in regard to head of A & R at Indolent Records.

'''Charles Manson''' 
Although Manson is most famous for the horrible murders committed by his followers, he was, at one time, an aspiring musician. He even hung out with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson for a time and a recording of his music was released after his trial.

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was also mentioned by Pynchon on page 155 of ''Inherent Vice''.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
An eccentric folk singer who played the ukulele and sang in a strangely beautiful falsetto voice. He's most famous for his version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." He also shows up in ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 310==
'''"unforeseen passion"''' 
A good description of Mucho's love for cocaine.

'''"Dr. Hugo Splanchnick"''' 
The entire Splanchnick sequence is immensely funny, including Pynchon's use of "snoot croaker" to describe the doc's specialty.

This bit is extremely ''Naked Lunch''-esque.

==Page 311==
[[Image:VWbus.jpg|thumb|Painted VW Bus|right]]
'''"stop-me-search-me VW bus"''' 
The epitome of Sixties California hippie culture, which (wonderful to say) continues to survive, everywhere, to this very day.

'''"'Aw' said the dopers, the speech balloon emerging from their tailpipe"''' 

All of a sudden, we're in 'toontown.

==Page 312==

'''Harry J. Anslinger''' 

Harry Jacob Anslinger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger WIKI]

'''"...me entiendes como te digo?"''' 
Spanish for "Unnerstan' what I'm sayin'?"

==Page 313==

'''KQAS''' 
There is a real KQAS 89.3 FM licensed in Warrenton, OR, but "KQAS! Kick-Ass 460 on the AM dial!" is fictitious. Nevertheless, it has a website, www.kqas.com. [http://www.kqas.com] Mucho Maas does the drive-time show. Thanks to whoever created this!

'''"I guess it's over..."''' 
It seems likely that this is Pynchon delivering the "nut paragraph," as journalists call the central idea in a story. This dialogue seems heartfelt -- especially the stuff about the tube ("keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for,") and rock 'n' roll ("just another way to claim our attention,") and "Soon they're gonna be coming after everything, not just drugs but beer, cigarettes, sugar, salt, fat, you name it, anything that could remotely please any of your senses...," and "It was the way people used to talk." (314) Yes, it was.

'''"Just please go careful, Zoyd"''' 
Mucho has made much the same settlement with the establishment that Hub Gates has: joined the approved union, settled down, stopped making a fuss.

'''That you were never going to die... How are they supposed to control a population that knows it'll never die?''' 
Like the Thanatoids?

==Page 314==
'''"''The Best of Sam Cooke'' ... the sermon"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke Sam Cooke] was a singer-songwriter who was a pioneer of Soul music and was shot to death in Los Angeles in 1964. By "the sermon" Pynchon may mean Cooke's song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come_(song) ''A Change is Gonna Come''] which was released just after his death. Listen on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNzxniXxYE here].

'''"Enjoy it while you can, while you're light enough for that glass to hold you."''' 
Prairie on top of the Hip Trip pinball machine is a marvelous image capturing the fragility of the moment, the certainty of loss, age, death.

'''"Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge represents a transition, in the metaphysics of the region"''' [[Image:GoldenGateBridge.jpg|thumb|Golden Gate Bridge|right]] 
Great intro to Zoyd in Vineland.

==Page 315==

'''"the way a firearm is... finality...out to sea"''' 
Suicide?

'''"one guitar and one harmonica, playing the blues"''' 

This is a great metaphorical bit, with this exodus of hippies, signaling the end of a generation: the journey begins with them playing rock'n'roll and then reversing the process through history, until finally, back where it all began, a single person, playing the blues.

==Page 316==

'''Harbor of Refuge'''

The historical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Harbor_of_Refuge Harbor of Refuge] is in Delaware. Here Pynchon seems to be creating the same idea for the west coast, however, a much less developed area over the years. Notice the mention of the Corps of Engineers marina on the following page.

See [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pg. 258]

==Page 317==

'''Eureka-Crescent City-Vineland megalopolis''' 

Since traveling north on Highway 101, and not hitting Vineland until after Eureka, one could surmise that Vineland is located somewhere between Eureka and Crescent City, probably somewhere around [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park]. The actual topography, with mention to Vineland Bay, suggests the Arcata area, possibly transplanted a bit further north, or even possibly a flip on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Bay Delaware Bay]? [see page 316, and Harbor of Refuge].

The city of Arcata (see a satellite view [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=arcata,+California&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.724817,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Arcata,+Humboldt,+California&ll=40.767542,-124.109116&spn=0.2595,0.441513&t=h&z=11 here]) approximately (but not perfectly) matches Pynchon's description of the city of Vineland. It even has the Art Deco bridges Pynchon describes. Arcata, of course, is in Humboldt County. However, the name Vineland and Pynchon's references to grape-growing suggest Mendocino County to the south, since Humboldt and Del Norte were too far northwest to be used for wine grapes in the 1980's and earlier. See also
[[Chapter_1#Page_8|page 8]]. Ultimately, there's no reason for Pynchon to geographically match the real world. In his words from the ''Against the Day'' jacket flap, "Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be."

For more on Arcata and marijuana, see [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L20820100422 this] Reuters article.

==Page 320==
'''"spool tenders, zooglers, water bucks and bull punchers"''' 
Logging jobs.

==Page 321==
'''"Many would be the former tripping partners and old flames who came over the years to deal with each other this way across desktops or through computer terminals, as if chosen in secret and sorted into opposing teams...."''' 
Some folks get on Welfare, and others administer it. Another incarnation of the binary/preterite metaphor.

==Page 322==

'''Vineland the Good''' 

The Vikings were the first to find and settle North America. They called it, "Vineland the Good". Following is an excerpt from ''Studies on the Vineland Voyages'' by Gustav Storm:

"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson Leiv Eriksson] on his home-voyage from Norway to Greenland >>discovered Vineland
the Good<<, an event which, in conjunction with his saving off the coast of
Greenland a shipwrecked crew, got him the surname of >>the Lucky<<).
In Icelandic manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries... derived partly
from Latin sources... the noted traveller Nicholas, abbot of Thingeyre... con-
taining special information... where mention is made of the countries west and
south-west of Iceland, a passage on the discovery of Vineland, which accordingly
can be taken as of very ancient date, and at any rate may come from Nicholas...
>>South of Greenland lies Helluland, next Markland, and from thence it is not far
to Vineland the Good, which some think joins Africa." [http://books.google.com/books?id=1d0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22vineland+the+good%22&source=bl&ots=-X0xA_mGLb&sig=KPaspqNHrkHzr2lEwM0q39fbI6E&hl=en&ei=ey2xSvapEMi0tweLnJjmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22vineland%20the%20good%22&f=false GOOGLE BOOKS LINK]

Also, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland Vinland].

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==Page 294==
'''"But when he found out about Prairie...something else, something from his nightmares of forced procreation, must have taken over, because later, in what could only be crippled judgment, Brock was to turn and go after the baby and, noticing Zoyd in the way, arrange for his removal too."''' 
This explains Vond's attack on Zoyd in [[Chapter 4]] -- but note how "crippled judgment" buys off Pynchon's lack of clear motivation for this series of events.

Brock's nightmares are discussed on [[Chapter_13#Page_274|page 274]]. In Pynchon's symbolic system Vond is placed in opposition to life.

'''A great joke about the huge brick of weed that Zuniga plants at Zoyd's pad. "Let me guess," says Zoyd, thinking of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's monolith, "2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]." "Try 20,000 Years In Sing Sing [1933]," replies Zuniga.''' 
This joke is especially funny because both titles include numbers, and because both guys include scholarly references to the years the films were made. (Pynchon, of course, has been doing this throughout, but this is the first time he does it in dialogue).

A monolith of pot also appears in ''Inherent Vice''. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_33 pg. 33].

==Page 297==
'''"Following the wisdom of the time"''' 
Pynchon refers, with vague disapproval, to the touchie-feelie California notion that men should "get in touch with their feelings" and, presumably, cry their little hearts out. However, Zoyd, who has gotten used to crying, is finding out that, in fact, big boys don't cry.

'''"Museum of Drug Abuse"''' 
Sure, Pynchon.

==Page 298==
'''"gnathic index"''' 
In craniology, the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed as a percent of the latter. Aren't you glad you asked?

'''"I know how to take care of Frenesi, asshole..."''' 
Vond is unbearably cruel and sadistic in this interview with Zoyd. Unlike the hero of "Leader of the Pack," the lyrics to which Pynchon uses for a joke on p. 270, Vond is both bad and evil. What an asshole! And he really hates hippies presumably for being childish. But who's really being childish here?

==Page 299==
'''"who feared nothing unless it was taking apart a transmission"''' 
Vond's Scorpiopic self-destructiveness is compared to that of the "beer outlaws" of Zoyd's youth ([[Chapter 4#Page 37|see page 37]]). This observation is quite accurate: Only advanced automotive nerds can take transmissions apart (and get them back together again).

'''"those rectal spasms of fear"''' 
Zoyd once again experiences this not-so-leit-but-definitely-motif in ''Vineland''. (See also pages [[Chapter 1#Page 10|10]], [[Chapter 4#Page 45|45]], [[Chapter 8#Page 116|116]], [[Chapter 11#Page 207|207]].)

==Page 300==
'''"Not the Earth Brock was acquainted with"''' 
A great line!

'''"...squealing, screaming guitar solos that defied any number of rules, that also lifted the blood and reassured the soul..."''' 
Could be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix Jimi Hendrix]. Or a description of ''Vineland''. But mainly it gives Zoyd an idea that the "real" world still exists, and so will he.

==Page 301==
'''"she calls up one night..."''' 
Vond seems interested in making sure that Frenesi won't be able to find Zoyd and Prairie. Of course this is contradicted by the "public act of craziness" that Vond has insisted Zoyd perform.

On pg. 304 it's Hector, not Vond, who describes the mental disability scam. He says they can keep track of him so long as he picks up his checks, just like one of Hector's Paid Informants. No nationwide publicity is required.

'''"I have her power of attorney, she gave me that even before she gave me her body..."''' 
That is, Frenesi surrendered her identity to Vond first; bondage before intercourse. There's a distant echo here of Mississippi bluesman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29 Robert Johnson's] "Traveling Riverside Blues": "She got a mortgage on my body, now, and a lien on my soul."

==Page 302==
'''"the count at 5:30 AM"''' 
Body count, that is a basic security measure in prisons.

==Page 303==
'''"EPT"''' 
Very likely El Paso, Texas. Pynchon has a scene in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677 Against the Day] set in El Paso, and even refers to the city by the same initials.

'''"Agustin Lara tunes"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Lara Augustin Lara] was born in Mexico City in 1896. He began composing songs in 1929, influenced by the popular dances and jazz forms of the 1930s and 40s. He composed well over 400 songs, many of them written for Mexican films. His best known song is probably "Granada." Lara died in 1970.

'''"conjunto"''' 
Spanish for "small band," or "combo."

'''"los vatos de Chiques"''' 
"Chicano dudes."

'''"palabra"''' 

Equivalent in Spanish to "word".

Another instance of Pynchon using this slang is in ''Inherent Vice'' when Bigfoot Bjornson says it to Doc, while also then saying, "semi-palabra" and hooking three fingers like a fang. [will update with pagination]

==Page 306==
[[Image:truckin.jpg|thumb|An R. Crumb Drawing|right]]
'''R. Crumb''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Crumb R. Crumb] is an American illustrator, author of subversive comics. He founded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comix Underground Comix] movement, which wanted to distinguish itself from mainstream comics by including subversive, sexually taboo, and counter-cultural material. Crumb is the subject of a fascinating documentary called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumb_(film) Crumb] (1994).

==Page 307==
'''"Prairie kept waking up every couple hours, all the way back to her old baby ways."''' 
This is true baby stuff. Is Pynchon a daddy? Consider also all the baby details, and Prairie's teenagerhood. This is hard stuff to get from a book, but with Pynchon's genius for bringing research alive you never know.

'''"Mucho Maas"''' 
A pun, of course, on "mucho mas" ("much more", in Spanish). Also (and also "of course") ex-husband of Oedipa Maas, and one of the main characters in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''], in which Mucho is a DJ disgusted by his former incarnation as a used car salesman for a group called N.A.D.A., and becomes dependent on LSD.

==Page 308==
'''Trillium''' 
"this pure specimen of young Californian womanhood of the period, ironed hair down to the small of her back, perfectly bikini-tanned, forever eighteen, sweetly stoned and surrounded by a patchouli haze" A friend of Mucho Maas, she greets Zoyd and Prairie at his townhouse in San Francisco. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium ''Trillium''] is a genus of perennial flowering plants native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium also shows up in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F ''Inherent Vice''].s

'''"Paranoids concert at the Fillmore"''' 
[http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''] A band featured in The Crying of Lot 49. Showing that his writing and his novels all take place in the same fictional universe.

'''"absquatulation"''' 
Absquatulate is a coined word, apparently meaning to make off, or decamp. It also makes an appearance in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day'']. The OED states it to have originated in the mid-19th Century and to have never had a serious application.

==Page 309==
'''"guest stash"''' 
A special supply of smoke for visitors was not uncommon in the houses of serious weedheads at this time. However, since Zoyd can't find the guest stash at Mucho's house he has to roll his own. Bummer!

'''Lawrence of Arabia [song]''' 

May not be intended at all, but I couldn't read this scene - Zoyd singing Prairie to sleep with this tune (before smoking his newly rolled J) - without thinking about the Skip Spence tune, "Lawrence of Euphoria," from his 1969 record, ''Oar''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oar_(Skip_Spence_album) WIKI]

'''Count Drugula... wearing joke-store fangs and a black velvet cape... scattering hits of high-quality acid among fans young and old...''' 
The Count's product makes an appearance on pg. [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13#Page_283 283] in regard to head of A & R at Indolent Records.

'''Charles Manson''' 
Although Manson is most famous for the horrible murders committed by his followers, he was, at one time, an aspiring musician. He even hung out with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson for a time and a recording of his music was released after his trial.

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was also mentioned by Pynchon on page 155 of ''Inherent Vice''.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
An eccentric folk singer who played the ukulele and sang in a strangely beautiful falsetto voice. He's most famous for his version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." He also shows up in ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 310==
'''"unforeseen passion"''' 
A good description of Mucho's love for cocaine.

'''"Dr. Hugo Splanchnick"''' 
The entire Splanchnick sequence is immensely funny, including Pynchon's use of "snoot croaker" to describe the doc's specialty.

This bit is extremely ''Naked Lunch''-esque.

==Page 311==
[[Image:VWbus.jpg|thumb|Painted VW Bus|right]]
'''"stop-me-search-me VW bus"''' 
The epitome of Sixties California hippie culture, which (wonderful to say) continues to survive, everywhere, to this very day.

'''"'Aw' said the dopers, the speech balloon emerging from their tailpipe"''' 

All of a sudden, we're in 'toontown.

==Page 312==

'''Harry J. Anslinger''' 

Harry Jacob Anslinger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger WIKI]

'''"...me entiendes como te digo?"''' 
Spanish for "Unnerstan' what I'm sayin'?"

==Page 313==

'''KQAS''' 
There is a real KQAS 89.3 FM licensed in Warrenton, OR, but "KQAS! Kick-Ass 460 on the AM dial!" is fictitious. Nevertheless, it has a website, www.kqas.com. [http://www.kqas.com] Mucho Maas does the drive-time show. Thanks to whoever created this!

'''"I guess it's over..."''' 
It seems likely that this is Pynchon delivering the "nut paragraph," as journalists call the central idea in a story. This dialogue seems heartfelt -- especially the stuff about the tube ("keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for,") and rock 'n' roll ("just another way to claim our attention,") and "Soon they're gonna be coming after everything, not just drugs but beer, cigarettes, sugar, salt, fat, you name it, anything that could remotely please any of your senses...," and "It was the way people used to talk." (314) Yes, it was.

'''"Just please go careful, Zoyd"''' 
Mucho has made much the same settlement with the establishment that Hub Gates has: joined the approved union, settled down, stopped making a fuss.

'''That you were never going to die... How are they supposed to control a population that knows it'll never die?''' 
Like the Thanatoids?

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'''"''The Best of Sam Cooke'' ... the sermon"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke Sam Cooke] was a singer-songwriter who was a pioneer of Soul music and was shot to death in Los Angeles in 1964. By "the sermon" Pynchon may mean Cooke's song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come_(song) ''A Change is Gonna Come''] which was released just after his death. Listen on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNzxniXxYE here].

'''"Enjoy it while you can, while you're light enough for that glass to hold you."''' 
Prairie on top of the Hip Trip pinball machine is a marvelous image capturing the fragility of the moment, the certainty of loss, age, death.

'''"Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge represents a transition, in the metaphysics of the region"''' [[Image:GoldenGateBridge.jpg|thumb|Golden Gate Bridge|right]] 
Great intro to Zoyd in Vineland.

==Page 315==

'''"the way a firearm is... finality...out to sea"''' 
Suicide?

'''"one guitar and one harmonica, playing the blues"''' 

This is a great metaphorical bit, with this exodus of hippies, signaling the end of a generation: the journey begins with them playing rock'n'roll and then reversing the process through history, until finally, back where it all began, a single person, playing the blues.

==Page 316==

'''Harbor of Refuge'''

The historical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Harbor_of_Refuge Harbor of Refuge] is in Delaware. Here Pynchon seems to be creating the same idea for the west coast, however, a much less developed area over the years. Notice the mention of the Corps of Engineers marina on the following page.

See [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pg. 258]

==Page 317==

'''Eureka-Crescent City-Vineland megalopolis''' 

Since traveling north on Highway 101, and not hitting Vineland until after Eureka, one could surmise that Vineland is located somewhere between Eureka and Crescent City, probably somewhere around [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park]. The actual topography, with mention to Vineland Bay, suggests the Arcata area, possibly transplanted a bit further north, or even possibly a flip on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Bay Delaware Bay]? [see page 316, and Harbor of Refuge].

The city of Arcata (see a satellite view [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=arcata,+California&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.724817,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Arcata,+Humboldt,+California&ll=40.767542,-124.109116&spn=0.2595,0.441513&t=h&z=11 here]) approximately (but not perfectly) matches Pynchon's description of the city of Vineland. It even has the Art Deco bridges Pynchon describes. Arcata, of course, is in Humboldt County. However, the name Vineland and Pynchon's references to grape-growing suggest Mendocino County to the south, since Humboldt and Del Norte were too far northwest to be used for wine grapes in the 1980's and earlier. See also
[[Chapter_1#Page_8|page 8]]. Ultimately, there's no reason for Pynchon to geographically match the real world. In his words from the ''Against the Day'' jacket flap, "Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be."

For more on Arcata and marijuana, see [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L20820100422 this] Reuters article.

==Page 320==
'''"spool tenders, zooglers, water bucks and bull punchers"''' 
Logging jobs.

==Page 321==
'''"Many would be the former tripping partners and old flames who came over the years to deal with each other this way across desktops or through computer terminals, as if chosen in secret and sorted into opposing teams...."''' 
Some folks get on Welfare, and others administer it. Another incarnation of the binary/preterite metaphor.

==Page 322==

'''Vineland the Good''' 

The Vikings were the first to find and settle North America. They called it, "Vineland the Good". Following is an excerpt from ''Studies on the Vineland Voyages'' by Gustav Storm:

"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson Leiv Eriksson] on his home-voyage from Norway to Greenland >>discovered Vineland
the Good<<, an event which, in conjunction with his saving off the coast of
Greenland a shipwrecked crew, got him the surname of >>the Lucky<<).
In Icelandic manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries... derived partly
from Latin sources... the noted traveller Nicholas, abbot of Thingeyre... con-
taining special information... where mention is made of the countries west and
south-west of Iceland, a passage on the discovery of Vineland, which accordingly
can be taken as of very ancient date, and at any rate may come from Nicholas...
>>South of Greenland lies Helluland, next Markland, and from thence it is not far
to Vineland the Good, which some think joins Africa." [http://books.google.com/books?id=1d0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%22vineland+the+good%22&source=bl&ots=-X0xA_mGLb&sig=KPaspqNHrkHzr2lEwM0q39fbI6E&hl=en&ei=ey2xSvapEMi0tweLnJjmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22vineland%20the%20good%22&f=false GOOGLE BOOKS LINK]

Also, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland Vinland].

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!" It's right up there with the one where the cop says, "Your papers, please!" and the head whips out his Zig-Zags.

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can download [http://www.tuxjunction.net/media/frenesi.mp3 Artie Shaw's original 1940's version]. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. [[Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times|Read Rushdie's review of ''Vineland'']].

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Page 22==
'''"Sylvester and Tweety"''' 
The famous animated cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are used to described the comic/violent relationship between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as a cartoon. At least for now.

'''shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan Ronald Reagan] was first elected governor in 1966 and took office in 1967.

'''sharing a house in Gordita Beach''' 
"Gordita Beach" is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"], a fictionalized Manhattan Beach where Pynchon is believed to have lived in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. The article states: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." And Gordita Beach is the home of Doc Sportello in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice'']. The surf band the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C#corvairs Corvairs], elements of which Zoyd lives with, are also present in ''Inherent Vice''.

'''the Corvairs''' [[Image:Corvair.jpg|thumb|1965 Corvair Corsa Coupe|right]]
It would have been unfortunate to have had your band named the Corvairs in 1967. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Chevrolet Corvair] was the only American mass-produced car to ever have a rear-mounted engine like a VW. In 1965, Ralph Nader published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed Unsafe at Any Speed], which showed that General Motors had ignored safety concerns and used a design prone to roll-overs. Sales tanked and GM eventually cancelled the entire line in 1969. Although some automobile aficionados cursed Ralph Nader, for most Americans the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair Corvair] became a sick joke and a symbol of corporate callousness.

==Page 23==
'''"Melrose Fife"''' 
Possibly inspired by a NYC radio jingle of the late forties and early fifties that went "Melrose five, five-three-hundred, Melrose five, five-three-hundred...".

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Avenue Melrose Avenue] is a famous street in Los Angeles, containing Paramount Pictures and other well-known spots.

Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife Barney Fife] is the rail-thin deputy sheriff on the TV comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show The Andy Griffith Show].

'''"musician Scott Oof"''' 
Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character, is in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Inherent Vice''] which takes place about 10 or 15 years before the events in ''Vineland''. Scott is the protagonist Doc Sportello's cousin.

'''"What I'm really here about..."''' 
This is an old "head" joke. ["Head" = sixties slang for weed-head, or "soft" drug-user.] The cop raps at the door and says "I'm here about drugs," and the doper says, "Thank God! We're all out!" It's right up there with the one where the cop says, "Your papers, please!" and the head whips out his Zig-Zags.

==Page 24==
'''That fatal five-spot was not the last Purchase-of-Information disbursement in the neighborhood.''' 
Cf. [[Chapter_1#Page 7|p. 7]]

'''"some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions"''' 
Typically Pynchonian paranoid reference.

'''Hector's PI money''' 
PI = Purchase-of-Information. See above.

In most mysteries, PI stands for Private Investigator, so Pynchon is making a cynical joke.

==Page 25==
'''"GS-13"''' 
Mid-level US Government job rating. Entry level is GS-4; the President is, like, GS-25.

==Page 26==
'''"hummed a tune..."''' 
Distraction drives Hector to humming "Meet the Flintstones," the second TV theme song so far.

'''"defunding"''' 
The first we learn of Frenesi's demotion/demolition, her "disappearance from the computer," her figurative conversion from a one to a zero. (See note on Pynchon's central binary metaphor, [[Chapter 6#Page 71|p. 71]], et al..)

==Page 27==
'''"Frenesi"''' 
Likely pronounced "free 'n' easy"...

Frenesi is Spanish for frenzy. It's also the title of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenesi song]. You can download [http://www.tuxjunction.net/media/frenesi.mp3 Artie Shaw's original 1940's version]. Linda Ronstadt's version, updated with Spanish lyrics, is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM YouTube].

Salman Rushdie points out that Frenesi is an anagram of free and sin. Read his review [[http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vineland_Review,_New_York_Times here]].

[[image:pier.jpg|thumb|Hermosa Beach Pier|right]]
'''"shot the old Hermosa Pier durin a lightnin storm"'''

LA pier extending 1000 feet out from Hermosa Beach, built 1913. To "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard under it, hopefully avoiding the pilings. To do so during a lightning storm, presumably at night, is suicidal bravado.

==Page 28==
'''"When the State withers away, Hector"''' 
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Friedrich Engels], of course, in whose expectation the State is not abolished, it withers away.

'''"Eastwood-style"''' 
In the style of actor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels Clint (Dirty Harry) Eastwood].

'''"I won't aks you to grow up, but...aks yourself, OK, Who was saved? That's all, rill easy..."''' 
Great rap from Hector, demonstrating Pynchon's flawless ear for dialect and accent. "Who was saved?" ties into the preterite theme.

==Page 29==
'''"the samurai condition"''' 
The notion of a samurai "always being prepared to die" will be echoed on [[Chapter 9#Page 161|page 161]] when Takeshi is shown to be technically dead, hence living without fear of death, hence always prepared to die. Which makes him a perfect samurai. Or Thanatoid.

==Page 31==
'''"maybe it goes beyond your ex-old lady..."''' 
Pynchon introduces the paranoid conspiracy element he (and we) love so much. Nothing is what it seems; there's always some mystery behind everything.

'''"zomoskepsis"''' 
As far as we can tell, this is a made-up word. But it's well-made, and means just what it says: The study, or contemplation, of soup or meat broth, from the ancient greek words "ζωμός", meaning soup, and "σκέψις", meaning thought/contemplation. Pynchon seems to enjoy making up words. Now and then you run across another "skepsis" word. Two of our advisors spotted "omphaloskepsis" (navel-gazing) in the beginning chapters of Umberto Eco's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum ''Foucault's Pendulum''].

'''"not like th' old Weatherpeople or nothin..."''' 
The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground WIKI]

'''"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."''' 
Pynchon himself?

==Page 32==
'''"Check's in the mayo"''' 
A brilliant throw-away Feghoot. In the fifties, a science fiction writer named Grendel Briarton wrote a series of short, funny pieces for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine titled, "Through Time and Space With Ferdinand Feghoot." They all worked the same way: establishing a silly and complicated story line for the sole purpose of setting up a painfully outrageous pun. Pynchon is addicted to the form; one of the best Feghoots ever written is the "Forty million Frenchmen" gag ("for DeMille young Frenchmen...") on page 559 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_557-563# ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

==Page 33==
'''"National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation"''' 
Dr. Deeply's Tubal detox operation (NEVER) is clearly a gag on Betty Ford's "Just Say No" Drug Abuse Clinic. This is also the first statement of a central theme: America's national addiction isn't to drugs, it's to the Tube.

'''"Hector...hasn't quite been himself, signed himself in with us for some therapy..."''' 
Another reference to the vicious addictiveness of TV.

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==Jacket Flap==
Read ''Vineland's'' original book jacket flap [[Vineland_Jacket_Flap_Copy|here]].

'''"less than harmonic convergence"''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence Harmonic Convergence] was a planetary alignment occurring in 1987 that was heralded by New Age astrologers as ushering-in an age of peace, rather than war, as a prelude to the Mayan "end of history" in 2012.

==Page 3==

[[image:creeping-fig.jpg|right|thumb|175px|caption|Creeping Fig (''Ficus pumila'')]]'''"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."''' 
Nice prolepsis going on in this opening sentence which subtly telegraphs ''Vineland'' themes. The pacific experience of drifting awake and Zoyd would definitely be drifting in filtered sunlight one summer morning is contrasted by the foreshadowings of threats creeping figs (a highly invasive plant) connecting to federal prosecutor Brock Vond who is referred to throughout as a "creep" and a "megacreep," notably on pp. [[Chapter_8#Page 108|108]], [[Chapter_9#Page 141|141]] and [[Chapter_9#Page 189|189]]. And those "squadrons of blue jays stomping around..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay blue jays] are scavengers and considered "adaptable, aggressive and omnivorous"; they also have a reputation as raiders of other birds' nests, stealing eggs, chicks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay]. In ''Vineland'' these blue jays will morph into squadrons of "private vigilantes" in blue planes, on [[Chapter_12#Page 221|p. 221]]. And, natch, there's that ominous Orwellian year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four 1984]. Of course, the reference to a "vine" in the novel's opening sentence, even if it's creeping, is ''appropo''. Finally, the color blue figures prominently in ''Vineland'', and particularly Frenesi's blue eyes. [[Blue in Vineland|Read more about the color blue in ''Vineland''...]]

It's also worth noting how this book begins, as does [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''], with a protagonist waking from a portentous dream, with light percolating in.

'''"Zoyd Wheeler"''' 
Zen + Void = Zoyd...

Rhymes with void, shares Z with Zuniga. Zoyd's last name perhaps references Wheeler Hall at University of California at Berkeley, at the epicenter of student unrest in the 60s.

The suffix -oid is like -ish; think humanoid, freakazoid, etc. So Zoyd is Z-ish. What comes to mind about Z? It's the last letter of the alphabet, so Zoyd is near the bottom. "Boyd" might be a good name for the heroic, hard-charging hero of an adventure or detective story, but not Zoyd. What else? Getting Z's means sleeping, so perhaps Zoyd is sleepy. Z is the first letter of zero, and the one-zero dichotomy shows up often in ''Vineland''. Finally, remember Z for Zorro and the leftish 1960's political film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(film) Z]

'''blue jays'''
[[image:Jays.jpg|thumb|right|Jays]]
The blue jay [''Cyanocitta cristata''] does not range west of the Rocky Mountains. The birds Zoyd hears are Stellar's jays [''C. stellari''], with dark heads and a more uniformly blue body.

'''"mental disability check"''' 
This instantly identifies Zoyd as a sixties character with a sixties scam. In the late sixties, Bay Area actor/writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote Peter Coyote] (b. 1941) wrote and performed a then-popular song called "ATD" celebrating the coolness of getting onto ATD (Aid to the Totally Disabled) for feigned mental problems to avoid having to work at some evil-collaborative (i.e., straight) job. The trick, of course, was convincing your caseworker that you were a nut. Zoyd's annual window-dive is a comic version of a now-classic ritual-scam turned into a media circus (as are most remains of the sixties). Given the importance of the Tube in Vineland, it's no accident that what was originally a private act of financial desperation has become a filler on TV news (complete with a fake window). Of course, as it turns out, this particular scam is not Zoyd's idea.

'''Prairie''' 
Zoyd's daughter would likely be Prairie Wheeler, thus her name might connect to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel Tibetan Prayer Wheel], a mechanical device used as an equivalent to the recitation of a mantra. The prayer wheel consists of a hollow metal cylinder, often beautifully embossed, mounted on a rod and containing a consecrated paper bearing a mantra. Each turn of the wheel by hand is considered equivalent to orally reciting the prayer. Variants to the handheld prayer wheel are large cylinders that can be set in motion by hand or attached to windmills or waterwheels and thus kept in continuous motion.

Note that [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park] is up around where the fictional town of Vineland is supposed to exist.

'''"country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio"''' 
Good Mendocino atmosphere throughout; clearly, Pynchon has been there.

'''"Count Chocula"''' 
An actual cereal that made its first appears in 1971, along with another monster-themed offering from General Mills, Franken Berry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Chocula Wikipedia]

'''Thapsia'''

Plant genus including ''Thapsia garganica''; roots used medicinally as a purgative, diuretic, and emetic. Contact with the sap can cause intense itching and blisters.

'''Channel 86'''

86 = to remove, take out, discard. During Prohibition, a popular NY speakeasy called Chumley's had an entrance at 86 Bedford Street. Customers generally used a more discreet entrance accessed through a neighboring courtyard, and this was the entrance used by the police when staging a raid. When warned of an impending raid, the bartender would shout, "86, everybody!", meaning that patrons should quickly exit through the safer, public entrance.

<div id="frootloops">'''"Froot Loops again"'''</div>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops Froot Loops] is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced by Kellogg's in 1963. A stoner favorite, they appear in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#frootloops Inherent Vice] too.

'''"Nestle's Quik"''' 
A chocolate flavoring for milk mix that was developed in the U.S. by 1948. It was introduced in Europe in 1950 as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesquik Nesquik] and that name was adapted in the U.S. in 1999.

'''"Cucumber Lounge"''' 
A phallic name, for sure. And cucumbers are one of Humboldt County's major crops, right up there with marijuana.

'''"the Log Jam in Del Norte"''' 
And another phallic club name playing off the county's logging industry.

Del Norte County in Northern California - so Pynchon has sharply indicated both the date and the location of the action.

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'''"elegant little...chain saw, about the size of a Mini-Mac"''' 
Mini-Mac = the Mac-10 machine pistol of US make. Zoyd's lady-like chainsaw goes well with his drag costume, and the effeminate clientele (drinking "kiwi mimosas.") It also makes a nice almost-rhyme with Sheriff Willis Chunko's gold-handled chainsaw on [[Chapter 15#Page 373|page 373]].

==Page 6==
'''"orientational vibes"''' 
Great satire on gay men who like to dress like lumberjacks, possibly inspired by the Monty Python song, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song_(Monty_Python) "I am a Lumberjack and I'm OK"]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg Watch the video...]

==Page 7==
'''"Six Rivers Conference"''' 
To the south of the eerie and mysterious Seventh River? ([[Chapter 4#Page 49|See p. 49.]])

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Rivers_National_Forest Six Rivers National Forest] is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California, with a U.S. Mail address in Eureka, CA. The Six Rivers Youth Football Conference is also headquartered in Eureka.

'''"nacreous pretty saw"''' 
Referring to the mother-of-pearl grips on "Cheryl's" chainsaw. And yet another phallic reference, "nacreous" being a common adjective to describe a male's ejaculate.

'''"hotshot PI lawyers"''' 
PI = Normally short for personal injury, but here perhaps purchase of information, as noted on [[Chapter 3#Page 24|p. 24]].

:The context definitely suggests Personal Injury, not Purchase of Information. "these are all folks now who like to sue..." and PI lawsuits are what they're bringing.

'''"George Lucas and all his crew"''' 
The forest sequences of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars Star Wars] sequel were shot in the area.

'''transfenestration'''

The act of passing or jumping through a window. Defenestration is the act of throwing something or someone out of a window.

==Page 8==
'''...say there Lemay!''' 
General "Bomb them back to the Stone Age!" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lemay Curtis Lemay] ?

'''His partner, Van Meter, was calling from the Cucumber Lounge...''' 
The name is likely a tip of the hat to Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888-1937) who's brilliant idea was to invent a parachute that was strapped onto the pilot instead of attached to the plane itself, as early parachutes were. He also invented the quick-release mechanism called the ripcord. His patents were granted in 1916. From the [http://www.ket.org/trips/aviation/vanmeter.htm Aviation Museum of Kentucky website]

Or mebbe to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Van_Meter Homer Van Meter], gunman and right hand man for John Dillinger, filmically portrayed by the likes of Elisha Cook, Jr., (1957) and Harry Dean Stanton (1973). The best line from the Wikipedia page linked above has it that "There are conflicting accounts of Van Meter's personality, although all agree that he was an inveterate clown and prankster."

Or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_morrison Van Morrison], a singer popular in the sixties (and beyond).

'''Vineland County''' 
[[Image:Ncounties.jpg|thumb|Northern California Counties|right]]
There is no Vineland County on the California map. Pynchon appears to have created Vineland County from parts of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties. However, on page 43 of ''Inherent Vice'', Pynchon writes "Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them decided to join the northward migration of those years up to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte". This leaves out Mendocino, which was part of the "hippie migration", and best fits the name Vineland, since it's the only one of the three that's been a major grape producer in the past. Jump to [[Chapter_14#Page_317|page 317]] for more evidence that Vineland lies on the border between Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Vineland was actually a farming community in real history that was located in Santa Clara County, near Los Gatos, Calif. in the later half of the 19th century. I came across this studying old voter registration records. While Pynchon's fictional town and county seem to be further north, this general area of Calif. is central in the book.

==Page 9==
'''"cop vehicles...playing the 'Jeopardy' theme on their sirens."''' 
The first of many TV show / theme song references, this one to the popular game show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy Jeopardy!] which began airing on March 30, 1964. Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rHqrLA7aw YouTube].

'''"unrelenting...bickering...[caused by] unquiet ghosts"''' 
A pre-hint of the Thanatoids?

==Page 10==
'''"one of those gotta-shit throbs of fear."''' 
An apt description, if you've ever felt it. Pynchon seems big on these visceral fear reactions; see also [[Chapter 4#Page 45|p. 45]] ("intestinal pangs of fear"), [[Chapter 8#Page 116|p. 116]] ("stone bowelflash"), [[Chapter 11#Page 207|p. 207]] ("a throb of fear went right up his asshole"), [[Chapter 14#Page 299|p. 299]] ("rectal spasms of fear,") and elsewhere.

'''Zoyd’s longtime pursuer, DEA field agent Hector Zuñiga''' 
To hector is to harass. Pynchon often alludes to opera in his work, and in Georges Bizet's French opéra comique, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen ''Carmen''] (1875), there is the character Zuniga (''without'' the tilde), an officer who arrests the beautiful gypsy Carmen after she is involved in a fight with another woman at the cigarette factory where they work. [http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera/qt/carmensynopsis.htm Synopsis]

'''"Dream on, Zoyd."''' 
Pynchon seems to be using the authorial voice with slightly higher profile than previously, speaking directly to characters (and readers) with comments like this.

'''"Hector stood over by the toilets pretending to play a Zaxxon machine..."''' 
Zaxxon is a 1982 arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon Wikipedia]

'''"Wayvone"''' 
The name may be a play on "rave on," but it's also been suggested that it might derive from huevon, a Spanish word meaning egg, but also referring to a testicle -- hence someone with "big balls." (Pynchon did live in Mexico for a while...) In any case, Wayvone is also a remittance man, someone who gets paid a small but regular amount of money to stay out of trouble in some far-away place. Pynchon seems fond of the type -- there are several in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], and the latter even has a remittance horse (named Snake). Is it pronounced "wavy one"?

In Chicano slang, a lazy man ["heavy balls" making activity difficult or distasteful].

[[image:double-sole-shoes-cerruti.jpg|thumb|200px|Double-sole shoes & mid-80s Cerruit suit]]'''"Ralph Jr. was all dolled up in a Cerruti suit, white shirt with cuff links, touch them you die double soled shoes from someplace off-shore, the works."''' 
Cerruti suits have been around since the 1950s, a symbol of prestige and excellence in men's suits. Italian designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Cerruti Nino Cerruti] (b. 1930) is the creator of the line, which continues to this day (as does Mr. Cerruti). In the 1980s, Wayvone's look was fashionable with the greed-is-good Wall Street crowd.

The expensive foreign suit and shoes (inappropriate for rural Northern California), the Italian designer, the oblique reference to his father's City occupation, his perhaps-Italian name (way-voh-nee, rhyming with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojones cojone] or maybe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_capone Capone], a Capone-of-the-Waves i.e. a California Capone?) all stereotype him as a Mafioso.

==Page 12==
'''"technical virgin"''' 
Meaning Zoyd has more-or-less resisted Zuniga's attempt to "turn" him into an informer/betrayer. The sexual metaphor prefigures many references to Frenesi's pussy (which she blames for driving her far beyond this stage).

'''"Wheel of Fortune"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(U.S._syndicated_game_show) Wheel of Fortune] is an American Tube game show, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history.

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==Jacket Flap==
Read ''Vineland's'' original book jacket flap [[Vineland_Jacket_Flap_Copy|here]].

'''"less than harmonic convergence"''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence Harmonic Convergence] was a planetary alignment occurring in 1987 that was heralded by New Age astrologers as ushering-in an age of peace, rather than war, as a prelude to the Mayan "end of history" in 2012.

==Page 3==

[[image:creeping-fig.jpg|right|thumb|175px|caption|Creeping Fig (''Ficus pumila'')]]'''"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."''' 
Nice prolepsis going on in this opening sentence which subtly telegraphs ''Vineland'' themes. The pacific experience of drifting awake and Zoyd would definitely be drifting in filtered sunlight one summer morning is contrasted by the foreshadowings of threats creeping figs (a highly invasive plant) connecting to federal prosecutor Brock Vond who is referred to throughout as a "creep" and a "megacreep," notably on pp. [[Chapter_8#Page 108|108]], [[Chapter_9#Page 141|141]] and [[Chapter_9#Page 189|189]]. And those "squadrons of blue jays stomping around..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay blue jays] are scavengers and considered "adaptable, aggressive and omnivorous"; they also have a reputation as raiders of other birds' nests, stealing eggs, chicks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay]. In ''Vineland'' these blue jays will morph into squadrons of "private vigilantes" in blue planes, on [[Chapter_12#Page 221|p. 221]]. And, natch, there's that ominous Orwellian year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four 1984]. Of course, the reference to a "vine" in the novel's opening sentence, even if it's creeping, is ''appropo''. Finally, the color blue figures prominently in ''Vineland'', and particularly Frenesi's blue eyes. [[Blue in Vineland|Read more about the color blue in ''Vineland''...]]

It's also worth noting how this book begins, as does [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''], with a protagonist waking from a portentous dream, with light percolating in.

'''"Zoyd Wheeler"''' 
Zen + Void = Zoyd...

Rhymes with void, shares Z with Zuniga. Zoyd's last name perhaps references Wheeler Hall at University of California at Berkeley, at the epicenter of student unrest in the 60s.

The suffix -oid is like -ish; think humanoid, freakazoid, etc. So Zoyd is Z-ish. What comes to mind about Z? It's the last letter of the alphabet, so Zoyd is near the bottom. "Boyd" might be a good name for the heroic, hard-charging hero of an adventure or detective story, but not Zoyd. What else? Getting Z's means sleeping, so perhaps Zoyd is sleepy. Z is the first letter of zero, and the one-zero dichotomy shows up often in ''Vineland''. Finally, remember Z for Zorro and the leftish 1960's political film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(film) Z]

'''blue jays'''
[[image:Jays.jpg|thumb|right|Jays]]
The blue jay [''Cyanocitta cristata''] does not range west of the Rocky Mountains. The birds Zoyd hears are Stellar's jays [''C. stellari''], with dark heads and a more uniformly blue body.

'''"mental disability check"''' 
This instantly identifies Zoyd as a sixties character with a sixties scam. In the late sixties, Bay Area actor/writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote Peter Coyote] (b. 1941) wrote and performed a then-popular song called "ATD" celebrating the coolness of getting onto ATD (Aid to the Totally Disabled) for feigned mental problems to avoid having to work at some evil-collaborative (i.e., straight) job. The trick, of course, was convincing your caseworker that you were a nut. Zoyd's annual window-dive is a comic version of a now-classic ritual-scam turned into a media circus (as are most remains of the sixties). Given the importance of the Tube in Vineland, it's no accident that what was originally a private act of financial desperation has become a filler on TV news (complete with a fake window). Of course, as it turns out, this particular scam is not Zoyd's idea.

'''Prairie''' 
Zoyd's daughter would likely be Prairie Wheeler, thus her name might connect to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel Tibetan Prayer Wheel], a mechanical device used as an equivalent to the recitation of a mantra. The prayer wheel consists of a hollow metal cylinder, often beautifully embossed, mounted on a rod and containing a consecrated paper bearing a mantra. Each turn of the wheel by hand is considered equivalent to orally reciting the prayer. Variants to the handheld prayer wheel are large cylinders that can be set in motion by hand or attached to windmills or waterwheels and thus kept in continuous motion.

Note that [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park] is up around where the fictional town of Vineland is supposed to exist.

'''"country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio"''' 
Good Mendocino atmosphere throughout; clearly, Pynchon has been there.

'''"Count Chocula"''' 
An actual cereal that made its first appears in 1971, along with another monster-themed offering from General Mills, Franken Berry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Chocula Wikipedia]

'''Thapsia'''

Plant genus including ''Thapsia garganica''; roots used medicinally as a purgative, diuretic, and emetic. Contact with the sap can cause intense itching and blisters.

'''Channel 86'''

86 = to remove, take out, discard. During Prohibition, a popular NY speakeasy called Chumley's had an entrance at 86 Bedford Street. Customers generally used a more discreet entrance accessed through a neighboring courtyard, and this was the entrance used by the police when staging a raid. When warned of an impending raid, the bartender would shout, "86, everybody!", meaning that patrons should quickly exit through the safer, public entrance.

<div id="frootloops">'''"Froot Loops again"'''</div>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops Froot Loops] is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced by Kellogg's in 1963. A stoner favorite, they appear in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#frootloops Inherent Vice] too.

'''"Nestle's Quik"''' 
A chocolate flavoring for milk mix that was developed in the U.S. by 1948. It was introduced in Europe in 1950 as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesquik Nesquik] and that name was adapted in the U.S. in 1999.

'''"Cucumber Lounge"''' 
A phallic name, for sure. And cucumbers are one of Humboldt County's major crops, right up there with marijuana.

'''"the Log Jam in Del Norte"''' 
And another phallic club name playing off the county's logging industry.

Del Norte County in Northern California - so Pynchon has sharply indicated both the date and the location of the action.

==Page 4==
'''"elegant little...chain saw, about the size of a Mini-Mac"''' 
Mini-Mac = the Mac-10 machine pistol of US make. Zoyd's lady-like chainsaw goes well with his drag costume, and the effeminate clientele (drinking "kiwi mimosas.") It also makes a nice almost-rhyme with Sheriff Willis Chunko's gold-handled chainsaw on [[Chapter 15#Page 373|page 373]].

==Page 6==
'''"orientational vibes"''' 
Great satire on gay men who like to dress like lumberjacks, possibly inspired by the Monty Python song, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song_(Monty_Python) "I am a Lumberjack and I'm OK"]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg Watch the video...]

==Page 7==
'''"Six Rivers Conference"''' 
To the south of the eerie and mysterious Seventh River? ([[Chapter 4#Page 49|See p. 49.]])

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Rivers_National_Forest Six Rivers National Forest] is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California, with a U.S. Mail address in Eureka, CA. The Six Rivers Youth Football Conference is also headquartered in Eureka.

'''"nacreous pretty saw"''' 
Referring to the mother-of-pearl grips on "Cheryl's" chainsaw. And yet another phallic reference, "nacreous" being a common adjective to describe a male's ejaculate.

'''"hotshot PI lawyers"''' 
PI = Normally short for personal injury, but here perhaps purchase of information, as noted on [[Chapter 3#Page 24|p. 24]].

:The context definitely suggests Personal Injury, not Purchase of Information. "these are all folks now who like to sue..." and PI lawsuits are what they're bringing.

'''"George Lucas and all his crew"''' 
The forest sequences of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars Star Wars] sequel were shot in the area.

'''transfenestration'''

The act of passing or jumping through a window. Defenestration is the act of throwing something [or someone] out of a window.

==Page 8==
'''...say there Lemay!''' 
General "Bomb them back to the Stone Age!" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lemay Curtis Lemay] ?

'''His partner, Van Meter, was calling from the Cucumber Lounge...''' 
The name is likely a tip of the hat to Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888-1937) who's brilliant idea was to invent a parachute that was strapped onto the pilot instead of attached to the plane itself, as early parachutes were. He also invented the quick-release mechanism called the ripcord. His patents were granted in 1916. From the [http://www.ket.org/trips/aviation/vanmeter.htm Aviation Museum of Kentucky website]

Or mebbe to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Van_Meter Homer Van Meter], gunman and right hand man for John Dillinger, filmically portrayed by the likes of Elisha Cook, Jr., (1957) and Harry Dean Stanton (1973). The best line from the Wikipedia page linked above has it that "There are conflicting accounts of Van Meter's personality, although all agree that he was an inveterate clown and prankster."

Or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_morrison Van Morrison], a singer popular in the sixties (and beyond).

'''Vineland County''' 
[[Image:Ncounties.jpg|thumb|Northern California Counties|right]]
There is no Vineland County on the California map. Pynchon appears to have created Vineland County from parts of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties. However, on page 43 of ''Inherent Vice'', Pynchon writes "Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them decided to join the northward migration of those years up to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte". This leaves out Mendocino, which was part of the "hippie migration", and best fits the name Vineland, since it's the only one of the three that's been a major grape producer in the past. Jump to [[Chapter_14#Page_317|page 317]] for more evidence that Vineland lies on the border between Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Vineland was actually a farming community in real history that was located in Santa Clara County, near Los Gatos, Calif. in the later half of the 19th century. I came across this studying old voter registration records. While Pynchon's fictional town and county seem to be further north, this general area of Calif. is central in the book.

==Page 9==
'''"cop vehicles...playing the 'Jeopardy' theme on their sirens."''' 
The first of many TV show / theme song references, this one to the popular game show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy Jeopardy!] which began airing on March 30, 1964. Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rHqrLA7aw YouTube].

'''"unrelenting...bickering...[caused by] unquiet ghosts"''' 
A pre-hint of the Thanatoids?

==Page 10==
'''"one of those gotta-shit throbs of fear."''' 
An apt description, if you've ever felt it. Pynchon seems big on these visceral fear reactions; see also [[Chapter 4#Page 45|p. 45]] ("intestinal pangs of fear"), [[Chapter 8#Page 116|p. 116]] ("stone bowelflash"), [[Chapter 11#Page 207|p. 207]] ("a throb of fear went right up his asshole"), [[Chapter 14#Page 299|p. 299]] ("rectal spasms of fear,") and elsewhere.

'''Zoyd’s longtime pursuer, DEA field agent Hector Zuñiga''' 
To hector is to harass. Pynchon often alludes to opera in his work, and in Georges Bizet's French opéra comique, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen ''Carmen''] (1875), there is the character Zuniga (''without'' the tilde), an officer who arrests the beautiful gypsy Carmen after she is involved in a fight with another woman at the cigarette factory where they work. [http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera/qt/carmensynopsis.htm Synopsis]

'''"Dream on, Zoyd."''' 
Pynchon seems to be using the authorial voice with slightly higher profile than previously, speaking directly to characters (and readers) with comments like this.

'''"Hector stood over by the toilets pretending to play a Zaxxon machine..."''' 
Zaxxon is a 1982 arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon Wikipedia]

'''"Wayvone"''' 
The name may be a play on "rave on," but it's also been suggested that it might derive from huevon, a Spanish word meaning egg, but also referring to a testicle -- hence someone with "big balls." (Pynchon did live in Mexico for a while...) In any case, Wayvone is also a remittance man, someone who gets paid a small but regular amount of money to stay out of trouble in some far-away place. Pynchon seems fond of the type -- there are several in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], and the latter even has a remittance horse (named Snake). Is it pronounced "wavy one"?

In Chicano slang, a lazy man ["heavy balls" making activity difficult or distasteful].

[[image:double-sole-shoes-cerruti.jpg|thumb|200px|Double-sole shoes & mid-80s Cerruit suit]]'''"Ralph Jr. was all dolled up in a Cerruti suit, white shirt with cuff links, touch them you die double soled shoes from someplace off-shore, the works."''' 
Cerruti suits have been around since the 1950s, a symbol of prestige and excellence in men's suits. Italian designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Cerruti Nino Cerruti] (b. 1930) is the creator of the line, which continues to this day (as does Mr. Cerruti). In the 1980s, Wayvone's look was fashionable with the greed-is-good Wall Street crowd.

The expensive foreign suit and shoes (inappropriate for rural Northern California), the Italian designer, the oblique reference to his father's City occupation, his perhaps-Italian name (way-voh-nee, rhyming with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojones cojone] or maybe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_capone Capone], a Capone-of-the-Waves i.e. a California Capone?) all stereotype him as a Mafioso.

==Page 12==
'''"technical virgin"''' 
Meaning Zoyd has more-or-less resisted Zuniga's attempt to "turn" him into an informer/betrayer. The sexual metaphor prefigures many references to Frenesi's pussy (which she blames for driving her far beyond this stage).

'''"Wheel of Fortune"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(U.S._syndicated_game_show) Wheel of Fortune] is an American Tube game show, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history.

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==Jacket Flap==
Read ''Vineland's'' original book jacket flap [[Vineland_Jacket_Flap_Copy|here]].

'''"less than harmonic convergence"''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence Harmonic Convergence] was a planetary alignment occurring in 1987 that was heralded by New Age astrologers as ushering-in an age of peace, rather than war, as a prelude to the Mayan "end of history" in 2012.

==Page 3==

[[image:creeping-fig.jpg|right|thumb|175px|caption|Creeping Fig (''Ficus pumila'')]]'''"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."''' 
Nice prolepsis going on in this opening sentence which subtly telegraphs ''Vineland'' themes. The pacific experience of drifting awake and Zoyd would definitely be drifting in filtered sunlight one summer morning is contrasted by the foreshadowings of threats creeping figs (a highly invasive plant) connecting to federal prosecutor Brock Vond who is referred to throughout as a "creep" and a "megacreep," notably on pp. [[Chapter_8#Page 108|108]], [[Chapter_9#Page 141|141]] and [[Chapter_9#Page 189|189]]. And those "squadrons of blue jays stomping around..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay blue jays] are scavengers and considered "adaptable, aggressive and omnivorous"; they also have a reputation as raiders of other birds' nests, stealing eggs, chicks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay]. In ''Vineland'' these blue jays will morph into squadrons of "private vigilantes" in blue planes, on [[Chapter_12#Page 221|p. 221]]. And, natch, there's that ominous Orwellian year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four 1984]. Of course, the reference to a "vine" in the novel's opening sentence, even if it's creeping, is ''appropo''. Finally, the color blue figures prominently in ''Vineland'', and particularly Frenesi's blue eyes. [[Blue in Vineland|Read more about the color blue in ''Vineland''...]]

It's also worth noting how this book begins, as does [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''], with a protagonist waking from a portentous dream, with light percolating in.

'''"Zoyd Wheeler"''' 
Zen + Void = Zoyd...

Rhymes with void, shares Z with Zuniga. Zoyd's last name perhaps references Wheeler Hall at University of California at Berkeley, at the epicenter of student unrest in the 60s.

The suffix -oid is like -ish; think humanoid, freakazoid, etc. So Zoyd is Z-ish. What comes to mind about Z? It's the last letter of the alphabet, so Zoyd is near the bottom. "Boyd" might be a good name for the heroic, hard-charging hero of an adventure or detective story, but not Zoyd. What else? Getting Z's means sleeping, so perhaps Zoyd is sleepy. Z is the first letter of zero, and the one-zero dichotomy shows up often in ''Vineland''. Finally, remember Z for Zorro and the leftish 1960's political film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(film) Z]

'''blue jays'''
[[image:Jays.jpg|thumb|right|Jays]]
The blue jay [''Cyanocitta cristata''] does not range west of the Rocky Mountains. The birds Zoyd hears are Stellar's jays [''C. stellari''], with dark heads and a more uniformly blue body.

'''"mental disability check"''' 
This instantly identifies Zoyd as a sixties character with a sixties scam. In the late sixties, Bay Area actor/writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote Peter Coyote] (b. 1941) wrote and performed a then-popular song called "ATD" celebrating the coolness of getting onto ATD (Aid to the Totally Disabled) for feigned mental problems to avoid having to work at some evil-collaborative (i.e., straight) job. The trick, of course, was convincing your caseworker that you were a nut. Zoyd's annual window-dive is a comic version of a now-classic ritual-scam turned into a media circus (as are most remains of the sixties). Given the importance of the Tube in Vineland, it's no accident that what was originally a private act of financial desperation has become a filler on TV news (complete with a fake window). Of course, as it turns out, this particular scam is not Zoyd's idea.

'''Prairie''' 
Zoyd's daughter would likely be Prairie Wheeler, thus her name might connect to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel Tibetan Prayer Wheel], a mechanical device used as an equivalent to the recitation of a mantra. The prayer wheel consists of a hollow metal cylinder, often beautifully embossed, mounted on a rod and containing a consecrated paper bearing a mantra. Each turn of the wheel by hand is considered equivalent to orally reciting the prayer. Variants to the handheld prayer wheel are large cylinders that can be set in motion by hand or attached to windmills or waterwheels and thus kept in continuous motion.

Note that [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park] is up around where the fictional town of Vineland is supposed to exist.

'''"country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio"''' 
Good Mendocino atmosphere throughout; clearly, Pynchon has been there.

'''"Count Chocula"''' 
An actual cereal that made its first appears in 1971, along with another monster-themed offering from General Mills, Franken Berry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Chocula Wikipedia]

'''Thapsia'''

Plant genus including ''Thapsia garganica''; roots used medicinally as a purgative, diuretic, and emetic. Contact with the sap can cause intense itching and blisters.

'''Channel 86'''

86 = to remove, take out, discard. During Prohibition, a popular NY speakeasy called Chumley's had an entrance at 86 Bedford Street. Customers generally used a more discreet entrance accessed through a neighboring courtyard, and this was the entrance used by the police when staging a raid. When warned of an impending raid, the bartender would shout, "86, everybody!", meaning that patrons should quickly exit through the safer, public entrance.

<div id="frootloops">'''"Froot Loops again"'''</div>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops Froot Loops] is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced by Kellogg's in 1963. A stoner favorite, they appear in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#frootloops Inherent Vice] too.

'''"Nestle's Quik"''' 
A chocolate flavoring for milk mix that was developed in the U.S. by 1948. It was introduced in Europe in 1950 as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesquik Nesquik] and that name was adapted in the U.S. in 1999.

'''"Cucumber Lounge"''' 
A phallic name, for sure. And cucumbers are one of Humboldt County's major crops, right up there with marijuana.

'''"the Log Jam in Del Norte"''' 
And another phallic club name playing off the county's logging industry.

Del Norte County in Northern California - so Pynchon has sharply indicated both the date and the location of the action.

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'''"elegant little...chain saw, about the size of a Mini-Mac"''' 
Mini-Mac = the Mac-10 machine pistol of US make. Zoyd's lady-like chainsaw goes well with his drag costume, and the effeminate clientele (drinking "kiwi mimosas.") It also makes a nice almost-rhyme with Sheriff Willis Chunko's gold-handled chainsaw on [[Chapter 15#Page 373|page 373]].

==Page 6==
'''"orientational vibes"''' 
Great satire on gay men who like to dress like lumberjacks, possibly inspired by the Monty Python song, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song_(Monty_Python) "I am a Lumberjack and I'm OK"]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg Watch the video...]

==Page 7==
'''"Six Rivers Conference"''' 
To the south of the eerie and mysterious Seventh River? ([[Chapter 4#Page 49|See p. 49.]])

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Rivers_National_Forest Six Rivers National Forest] is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California, with a U.S. Mail address in Eureka, CA. The Six Rivers Youth Football Conference is also headquartered in Eureka.

'''"nacreous pretty saw"''' 
Referring to the mother-of-pearl grips on "Cheryl's" chainsaw. And yet another phallic reference, "nacreous" being a common adjective to describe a male's ejaculate.

'''"hotshot PI lawyers"''' 
PI = Normally short for personal injury, but here perhaps purchase of information, as noted on [[Chapter 3#Page 24|p. 24]].

:The context definitely suggests Personal Injury, not Purchase of Information. "these are all folks now who like to sue..." and PI lawsuits are what they're bringing.

'''"George Lucas and all his crew"''' 
The forest sequences of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars Star Wars] sequel were shot in the area.

'''transfenestration'''

The act of passing [jumping] through a window. Defenestration is the act of throwing something [or someone] out of a window.

==Page 8==
'''...say there Lemay!''' 
General "Bomb them back to the Stone Age!" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lemay Curtis Lemay] ?

'''His partner, Van Meter, was calling from the Cucumber Lounge...''' 
The name is likely a tip of the hat to Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888-1937) who's brilliant idea was to invent a parachute that was strapped onto the pilot instead of attached to the plane itself, as early parachutes were. He also invented the quick-release mechanism called the ripcord. His patents were granted in 1916. From the [http://www.ket.org/trips/aviation/vanmeter.htm Aviation Museum of Kentucky website]

Or mebbe to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Van_Meter Homer Van Meter], gunman and right hand man for John Dillinger, filmically portrayed by the likes of Elisha Cook, Jr., (1957) and Harry Dean Stanton (1973). The best line from the Wikipedia page linked above has it that "There are conflicting accounts of Van Meter's personality, although all agree that he was an inveterate clown and prankster."

Or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_morrison Van Morrison], a singer popular in the sixties (and beyond).

'''Vineland County''' 
[[Image:Ncounties.jpg|thumb|Northern California Counties|right]]
There is no Vineland County on the California map. Pynchon appears to have created Vineland County from parts of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties. However, on page 43 of ''Inherent Vice'', Pynchon writes "Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them decided to join the northward migration of those years up to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte". This leaves out Mendocino, which was part of the "hippie migration", and best fits the name Vineland, since it's the only one of the three that's been a major grape producer in the past. Jump to [[Chapter_14#Page_317|page 317]] for more evidence that Vineland lies on the border between Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Vineland was actually a farming community in real history that was located in Santa Clara County, near Los Gatos, Calif. in the later half of the 19th century. I came across this studying old voter registration records. While Pynchon's fictional town and county seem to be further north, this general area of Calif. is central in the book.

==Page 9==
'''"cop vehicles...playing the 'Jeopardy' theme on their sirens."''' 
The first of many TV show / theme song references, this one to the popular game show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy Jeopardy!] which began airing on March 30, 1964. Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rHqrLA7aw YouTube].

'''"unrelenting...bickering...[caused by] unquiet ghosts"''' 
A pre-hint of the Thanatoids?

==Page 10==
'''"one of those gotta-shit throbs of fear."''' 
An apt description, if you've ever felt it. Pynchon seems big on these visceral fear reactions; see also [[Chapter 4#Page 45|p. 45]] ("intestinal pangs of fear"), [[Chapter 8#Page 116|p. 116]] ("stone bowelflash"), [[Chapter 11#Page 207|p. 207]] ("a throb of fear went right up his asshole"), [[Chapter 14#Page 299|p. 299]] ("rectal spasms of fear,") and elsewhere.

'''Zoyd’s longtime pursuer, DEA field agent Hector Zuñiga''' 
To hector is to harass. Pynchon often alludes to opera in his work, and in Georges Bizet's French opéra comique, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen ''Carmen''] (1875), there is the character Zuniga (''without'' the tilde), an officer who arrests the beautiful gypsy Carmen after she is involved in a fight with another woman at the cigarette factory where they work. [http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera/qt/carmensynopsis.htm Synopsis]

'''"Dream on, Zoyd."''' 
Pynchon seems to be using the authorial voice with slightly higher profile than previously, speaking directly to characters (and readers) with comments like this.

'''"Hector stood over by the toilets pretending to play a Zaxxon machine..."''' 
Zaxxon is a 1982 arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon Wikipedia]

'''"Wayvone"''' 
The name may be a play on "rave on," but it's also been suggested that it might derive from huevon, a Spanish word meaning egg, but also referring to a testicle -- hence someone with "big balls." (Pynchon did live in Mexico for a while...) In any case, Wayvone is also a remittance man, someone who gets paid a small but regular amount of money to stay out of trouble in some far-away place. Pynchon seems fond of the type -- there are several in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], and the latter even has a remittance horse (named Snake). Is it pronounced "wavy one"?

In Chicano slang, a lazy man ["heavy balls" making activity difficult or distasteful].

[[image:double-sole-shoes-cerruti.jpg|thumb|200px|Double-sole shoes & mid-80s Cerruit suit]]'''"Ralph Jr. was all dolled up in a Cerruti suit, white shirt with cuff links, touch them you die double soled shoes from someplace off-shore, the works."''' 
Cerruti suits have been around since the 1950s, a symbol of prestige and excellence in men's suits. Italian designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Cerruti Nino Cerruti] (b. 1930) is the creator of the line, which continues to this day (as does Mr. Cerruti). In the 1980s, Wayvone's look was fashionable with the greed-is-good Wall Street crowd.

The expensive foreign suit and shoes (inappropriate for rural Northern California), the Italian designer, the oblique reference to his father's City occupation, his perhaps-Italian name (way-voh-nee, rhyming with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojones cojone] or maybe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_capone Capone], a Capone-of-the-Waves i.e. a California Capone?) all stereotype him as a Mafioso.

==Page 12==
'''"technical virgin"''' 
Meaning Zoyd has more-or-less resisted Zuniga's attempt to "turn" him into an informer/betrayer. The sexual metaphor prefigures many references to Frenesi's pussy (which she blames for driving her far beyond this stage).

'''"Wheel of Fortune"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(U.S._syndicated_game_show) Wheel of Fortune] is an American Tube game show, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history.

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{{infobox Book |
| name = Vineland
| image = [[Image:Vineland_cover2.jpg|230px]]
| image_caption = U.S. First Edition, February 1, 1990
| author = Thomas Pynchon
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Novel
| publisher = Little, Brown
| release_date = 1990
| media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
| pages = 385
| isbn = ISBN 0-316-72444-0
}}
'''''Vineland''''' is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern tale of life in the 1980's United States. Its central locale is Vineland, California, a fictional small town in California's Anderson Valley (perhaps based upon Boonville, California). The title ''Vineland'' may be a play on the word "Hollywood", or a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland Vinland]. Still others contend that the title refers to Vineland, New Jersey, the hometown of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith Patti Smith]. However, the most obvious explanation is that the title is a reference to the area in which the novel is set, which is near California's grapevine-filled Napa Valley wine country.

''Vineland'' disappointed many critics and readers who waited almost twenty years since ''Gravity's Rainbow'' in 1973. In contrast to Pynchon's earlier works, ''Vineland'' was seen as overtly political and polemical, as if Pynchon, disgusted with Reaganomics, penned an angry modern adaptation of George Orwell's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'']. On the other hand, one reviewer argues,

:...such appraisals are the result of these readers' failure to apprehend the historical depth the novel offers, and their refusal to take seriously the endpoint of the history it relates. There has yet to be a critic who, like the ghost of Walter Rathenau in '[http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ 'Gravity's Rainbow''], is able to "see the whole shape at once," the continuing pattern of executive aggrandizement so carefully interwoven into the exposition of ''Vineland'' and which leads up to a moment as apocalyptic as any in recent fiction. To answer Leithauser, Wilde, and Mackey, there is in ''Vineland'' something "overarchingly malignant," "some glamorously threatening force," an "awesome glimpse of the sublime and the demonic"; it has simply gone unrecognized.

Others note, however, that the novel is as relentless in its satire of representatives of the counterculture and oppositional movements as it is of government authority and agents. Some readers contend that ''Vineland'' does not take itself seriously enough to be leftist literature, although others have drawn parallels with the landscapes and social upheavals of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Politics aside, Pynchon's technique is still recognizable: from a cameo of Mucho Maas (from [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''The Crying of Lot 49'']) to a bizarre episode hinting at Godzilla, Pynchon's "zaniness" pervades the novel. For example, Pynchon laces the book with ''Star Trek'' references: he has his characters watch a sitcom named ''Say, Jim,'' about a starship all of whose officers "were black except for the Communications Officer, a freckled white redhead named Lieutenant O'Hara." The numerous references to films rigourously include the year of release in a manner unusual for a work of fiction. Several characters are Thanatoids, victims of karmic imbalance and inhabitants of a strange state of being "like death, only different". In addition, the novel is replete with female ninjas, astrologers, marijuana smokers, television addicts, musical interludes (including the theme song of ''The Smurfs'') and, naturally, metaphors drawn from ''Star Trek.''

==The Cover==
The font for the "Vineland" title is ITC Kabel.

[[image:Crescent-Camp-No-1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Darius Kinsey, ''Crescent Camp Number One, Timber Views Co., Seattle''. 1936.]]The cover photograph was taken by American photographer [[Darius Kinsey]] (1869-1945) who moved to Seattle, Washington, from Missouri in 1906 and spent the remainder of his life photographing the logging industry and scenic views of the Pacific Northwest. Charles A. Riley II, in his book [http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FColor-Codes-Philosophy-Architecture-Literature%2Fdp%2F0874517427%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1198801693%26sr%3D1-1&tag=hyperartspynchon&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 ''Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology''], posits a relationship between ''Vineland'' and the cover photo on its dustjacket, an excerpt of which is [[Charles Riley - Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color|here]].

The cover photograph is entitled ''Crescent Camp Number One'' and was taken in Seattle in the 1930s.

==References and links==
* Pynchon, Thomas R. ''Vineland.'' (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990).
* Rushdie, Salman. [[Vineland_Review%2C_New_York_Times|"Still Crazy After All Those Years"]], ''The New York Times]'' 14 January 1990.
* Geddes, Dan. "[http://www.thesatirist.com/books/Vineland.html Pynchon's ''Vineland:'' The War On Drugs and the Coming American Police-State]", ''The Satirist''
* Gordon, Andrew. "[http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Smoking_Dope_with_Thomas_Pynchon Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir]". ''The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel,'' ed. Geoffrey Green, Donald J. Greiner, and Larry McCaffery (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994): 167-78.
* Thoreen, David. “[http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm The President's Emergency War Powers And The Erosion Of Civil Liberties In Pynchon's Vineland]”, ''Oklahoma City University Law Review'' '''24,''' No. 3 (1999).
* John Diebold and Michael Goodwin: [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ ''Babies of Wackiness''], a "reader's guide to ''Vineland''"

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==Jacket Flap==
Read ''Vineland's'' original book jacket flap [[Vineland_Jacket_Flap_Copy|here]].

'''"less than harmonic convergence"''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence Harmonic Convergence] was a planetary alignment occurring in 1987 that was heralded by New Age astrologers as ushering-in an age of peace, rather than war, as a prelude to the Mayan "end of history" in 2012.

==Page 3==

[[image:creeping-fig.jpg|right|thumb|175px|caption|Creeping Fig (''Ficus pumila'')]]'''"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."''' 
Nice prolepsis going on in this opening sentence which subtly telegraphs ''Vineland'' themes. The pacific experience of drifting awake and Zoyd would definitely be drifting in filtered sunlight one summer morning is contrasted by the foreshadowings of threats creeping figs (a highly invasive plant) connecting to federal prosecutor Brock Vond who is referred to throughout as a "creep" and a "megacreep," notably on pp. [[Chapter_8#Page 108|108]], [[Chapter_9#Page 141|141]] and [[Chapter_9#Page 189|189]]. And those "squadrons of blue jays stomping around..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay blue jays] are scavengers and considered "adaptable, aggressive and omnivorous"; they also have a reputation as raiders of other birds' nests, stealing eggs, chicks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay]. In ''Vineland'' these blue jays will morph into squadrons of "private vigilantes" in blue planes, on [[Chapter_12#Page 221|p. 221]]. And, natch, there's that ominous Orwellian year of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four 1984]. Of course, the reference to a "vine" in the novel's opening sentence, even if it's creeping, is ''appropo''. Finally, the color blue figures prominently in ''Vineland'', and particularly Frenesi's blue eyes. [[Blue in Vineland|Read more about the color blue in ''Vineland''...]]

It's also worth noting how this book begins, as does [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Gravity's Rainbow''], with a protagonist waking from a portentous dream, with light percolating in.

'''"Zoyd Wheeler"''' 
Zen + Void = Zoyd...

Rhymes with void, shares Z with Zuniga. Zoyd's last name perhaps references Wheeler Hall at University of California at Berkeley, at the epicenter of student unrest in the 60s.

The suffix -oid is like -ish; think humanoid, freakazoid, etc. So Zoyd is Z-ish. What comes to mind about Z? It's the last letter of the alphabet, so Zoyd is near the bottom. "Boyd" might be a good name for the heroic, hard-charging hero of an adventure or detective story, but not Zoyd. What else? Getting Z's means sleeping, so perhaps Zoyd is sleepy. Z is the first letter of zero, and the one-zero dichotomy shows up often in ''Vineland''. Finally, remember Z for Zorro and the leftish 1960's political film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(film) Z]

'''blue jays'''
[[image:Jays.jpg|thumb|right|Jays]]
The blue jay [''Cyanocitta cristata''] does not range west of the Rocky Mountains. The birds Zoyd hears are Stellar's jays [''C. stellari''], with dark heads and a more uniformly blue body.

'''"mental disability check"''' 
This instantly identifies Zoyd as a sixties character with a sixties scam. In the late sixties, Bay Area actor/writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote Peter Coyote] (b. 1941) wrote and performed a then-popular song called "ATD" celebrating the coolness of getting onto ATD (Aid to the Totally Disabled) for feigned mental problems to avoid having to work at some evil-collaborative (i.e., straight) job. The trick, of course, was convincing your caseworker that you were a nut. Zoyd's annual window-dive is a comic version of a now-classic ritual-scam turned into a media circus (as are most remains of the sixties). Given the importance of the Tube in Vineland, it's no accident that what was originally a private act of financial desperation has become a filler on TV news (complete with a fake window). Of course, as it turns out, this particular scam is not Zoyd's idea.

'''Prairie''' 
Zoyd's daughter would likely be Prairie Wheeler, thus her name might connect to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel Tibetan Prayer Wheel], a mechanical device used as an equivalent to the recitation of a mantra. The prayer wheel consists of a hollow metal cylinder, often beautifully embossed, mounted on a rod and containing a consecrated paper bearing a mantra. Each turn of the wheel by hand is considered equivalent to orally reciting the prayer. Variants to the handheld prayer wheel are large cylinders that can be set in motion by hand or attached to windmills or waterwheels and thus kept in continuous motion.

Note that [http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park] is up around where the fictional town of Vineland is supposed to exist.

'''"country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio"''' 
Good Mendocino atmosphere throughout; clearly, Pynchon has been there.

'''"Count Chocula"''' 
An actual cereal that made its first appears in 1971, along with another monster-themed offering from General Mills, Franken Berry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Chocula Wikipedia]

'''Thapsia'''

Plant genus including ''Thapsia garganica''; roots used medicinally as a purgative, diuretic, and emetic. Contact with the sap can cause intense itching and blisters.

'''Channel 86'''

86 = to remove, take out, discard. During Prohibition, a popular NY speakeasy called Chumley's had an entrance at 86 Bedford Street. Customers generally used a more discreet entrance accessed through a neighboring courtyard, and this was the entrance used by the police when staging a raid. When warned of an impending raid, the bartender would shout, "86, everybody!", meaning that patrons should quickly exit through the safer, public entrance.

<div id="frootloops">'''"Froot Loops again"'''</div>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops Froot Loops] is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced by Kellogg's in 1963. A stoner favorite, they appear in [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#frootloops Inherent Vice] too.

'''"Nestle's Quik"''' 
A chocolate flavoring for milk mix that was developed in the U.S. by 1948. It was introduced in Europe in 1950 as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesquik Nesquik] and that name was adapted in the U.S. in 1999.

'''"Cucumber Lounge"''' 
A phallic name, for sure. And cucumbers are one of Humboldt County's major crops, right up there with marijuana.

'''"the Log Jam in Del Norte"''' 
And another phallic club name playing off the county's logging industry.

Del Norte County in Northern California - so Pynchon has sharply indicated both the date and the location of the action.

==Page 4==
'''"elegant little...chain saw, about the size of a Mini-Mac"''' 
Mini-Mac = the Mac-10 machine pistol of US make. Zoyd's lady-like chainsaw goes well with his drag costume, and the effeminate clientele (drinking "kiwi mimosas.") It also makes a nice almost-rhyme with Sheriff Willis Chunko's gold-handled chainsaw on [[Chapter 15#Page 373|page 373]].

==Page 6==
'''"orientational vibes"''' 
Great satire on gay men who like to dress like lumberjacks, possibly inspired by the Monty Python song, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song_(Monty_Python) "I am a Lumberjack and I'm OK"]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg Watch the video...]

==Page 7==
'''"Six Rivers Conference"''' 
To the south of the eerie and mysterious Seventh River? ([[Chapter 4#Page 49|See p. 49.]])

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Rivers_National_Forest Six Rivers National Forest] is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California, with a U.S. Mail address in Eureka, CA. The Six Rivers Youth Football Conference is also headquartered in Eureka.

'''"nacreous pretty saw"''' 
Referring to the mother-of-pearl grips on "Cheryl's" chainsaw.

'''"hotshot PI lawyers"''' 
PI = Normally short for personal injury, but here perhaps purchase of information, as noted on [[Chapter 3#Page 24|p. 24]].

:The context definitely suggests Personal Injury, not Purchase of Information. "these are all folks now who like to sue..." and PI lawsuits are what they're bringing.

'''"George Lucas and all his crew"''' 
The forest sequences of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars Star Wars] sequel were shot in the area.

'''transfenestration'''

The act of passing [jumping] through a window. Defenestration is the act of throwing something [or someone] out of a window.

==Page 8==
'''...say there Lemay!''' 
General "Bomb them back to the Stone Age!" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Lemay Curtis Lemay] ?

'''His partner, Van Meter, was calling from the Cucumber Lounge...''' 
The name is likely a tip of the hat to Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr. (1888-1937) who's brilliant idea was to invent a parachute that was strapped onto the pilot instead of attached to the plane itself, as early parachutes were. He also invented the quick-release mechanism called the ripcord. His patents were granted in 1916. From the [http://www.ket.org/trips/aviation/vanmeter.htm Aviation Museum of Kentucky website]

Or mebbe to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Van_Meter Homer Van Meter], gunman and right hand man for John Dillinger, filmically portrayed by the likes of Elisha Cook, Jr., (1957) and Harry Dean Stanton (1973). The best line from the Wikipedia page linked above has it that "There are conflicting accounts of Van Meter's personality, although all agree that he was an inveterate clown and prankster."

Or perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_morrison Van Morrison], a singer popular in the sixties (and beyond).

'''Vineland County''' 
[[Image:Ncounties.jpg|thumb|Northern California Counties|right]]
There is no Vineland County on the California map. Pynchon appears to have created Vineland County from parts of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties. However, on page 43 of ''Inherent Vice'', Pynchon writes "Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them decided to join the northward migration of those years up to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte". This leaves out Mendocino, which was part of the "hippie migration", and best fits the name Vineland, since it's the only one of the three that's been a major grape producer in the past. Jump to [[Chapter_14#Page_317|page 317]] for more evidence that Vineland lies on the border between Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Vineland was actually a farming community in real history that was located in Santa Clara County, near Los Gatos, Calif. in the later half of the 19th century. I came across this studying old voter registration records. While Pynchon's fictional town and county seem to be further north, this general area of Calif. is central in the book.

==Page 9==
'''"cop vehicles...playing the 'Jeopardy' theme on their sirens."''' 
The first of many TV show / theme song references, this one to the popular game show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy Jeopardy!] which began airing on March 30, 1964. Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rHqrLA7aw YouTube].

'''"unrelenting...bickering...[caused by] unquiet ghosts"''' 
A pre-hint of the Thanatoids?

==Page 10==
'''"one of those gotta-shit throbs of fear."''' 
An apt description, if you've ever felt it. Pynchon seems big on these visceral fear reactions; see also [[Chapter 4#Page 45|p. 45]] ("intestinal pangs of fear"), [[Chapter 8#Page 116|p. 116]] ("stone bowelflash"), [[Chapter 11#Page 207|p. 207]] ("a throb of fear went right up his asshole"), [[Chapter 14#Page 299|p. 299]] ("rectal spasms of fear,") and elsewhere.

'''Zoyd’s longtime pursuer, DEA field agent Hector Zuñiga''' 
To hector is to harass. Pynchon often alludes to opera in his work, and in Georges Bizet's French opéra comique, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen ''Carmen''] (1875), there is the character Zuniga (''without'' the tilde), an officer who arrests the beautiful gypsy Carmen after she is involved in a fight with another woman at the cigarette factory where they work. [http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera/qt/carmensynopsis.htm Synopsis]

'''"Dream on, Zoyd."''' 
Pynchon seems to be using the authorial voice with slightly higher profile than previously, speaking directly to characters (and readers) with comments like this.

'''"Hector stood over by the toilets pretending to play a Zaxxon machine..."''' 
Zaxxon is a 1982 arcade game developed by Ikegami Tsushinki and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon Wikipedia]

'''"Wayvone"''' 
The name may be a play on "rave on," but it's also been suggested that it might derive from huevon, a Spanish word meaning egg, but also referring to a testicle -- hence someone with "big balls." (Pynchon did live in Mexico for a while...) In any case, Wayvone is also a remittance man, someone who gets paid a small but regular amount of money to stay out of trouble in some far-away place. Pynchon seems fond of the type -- there are several in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] and [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], and the latter even has a remittance horse (named Snake). Is it pronounced "wavy one"?

In Chicano slang, a lazy man ["heavy balls" making activity difficult or distasteful].

[[image:double-sole-shoes-cerruti.jpg|thumb|200px|Double-sole shoes & mid-80s Cerruit suit]]'''"Ralph Jr. was all dolled up in a Cerruti suit, white shirt with cuff links, touch them you die double soled shoes from someplace off-shore, the works."''' 
Cerruti suits have been around since the 1950s, a symbol of prestige and excellence in men's suits. Italian designer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Cerruti Nino Cerruti] (b. 1930) is the creator of the line, which continues to this day (as does Mr. Cerruti). In the 1980s, Wayvone's look was fashionable with the greed-is-good Wall Street crowd.

The expensive foreign suit and shoes (inappropriate for rural Northern California), the Italian designer, the oblique reference to his father's City occupation, his perhaps-Italian name (way-voh-nee, rhyming with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojones cojone] or maybe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_capone Capone], a Capone-of-the-Waves i.e. a California Capone?) all stereotype him as a Mafioso.

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'''"technical virgin"''' 
Meaning Zoyd has more-or-less resisted Zuniga's attempt to "turn" him into an informer/betrayer. The sexual metaphor prefigures many references to Frenesi's pussy (which she blames for driving her far beyond this stage).

'''"Wheel of Fortune"''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_(U.S._syndicated_game_show) Wheel of Fortune] is an American Tube game show, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history.

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Summer, 1990 - [[Yale Review - "State and Vine"|'''"State and Vine" in the ''Yale Review''''']] - Richard Powers: "All fallen and even abused children, like Frenesi, with her "shadows of her shoulder blades, like healed stumps of wings ritually amputated once long ago," will, for better or worse, never escape the need for parenting, for a bedtime story. Yes, narrative may be a form of paranoia, a frightened systems-building to counter or create conspiracies, real and imagined. But narrative can be more: in ''Vineland'' it is an interrogation of power, a flexing of imagination and observation, an urgent verbal gag straining to redeem what innocence is left us by the State. In this, its only weapon, as always, is continuous telling and retelling. Whatever other astonishments and innovations have landed him securely in American readers' imaginations, Pynchon remains above all a story-spinner, winning another few moments for the mind's eye. So tell us another one, Pop, before it gets too dark."

03/23/90 - [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V110/N15/vine.15a.html '''The Tech'''] - Mark Webster: "The Tube is ubiquitous. Life is defined, framed, imitated, and irradiated by the Tube. Movie and TV show titles have dates next to them as if they were references for the story. Pynchon can pack more historical, literary, scientific, and entertainment references into a single sentence than anyone. The tone of ''Vineland'' is softer, more conciliatory than in past works. There is a hopeful sense of coming together that contrasts with the apocalyptic [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Could the years be mellowing Pynchon? No matter, his talents remain sharp, and it's good to hear from the master of the absurd again."

03/09/90 - [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ '''Chicago Reader'''] - Jonathan Rosenbaum: "A novel that begins and ends with literal awakenings (of Zoyd and Prairie, respectively), ''Vineland'' structures its vinelike meanderings through an ingenious system of flashbacks and a few key images. (The exposition is arranged so that even the most fugitive vines in the narrative tangle eventually prove to be linked: Zoyd and Prairie’s house, for instance, which figures in the opening pages, is only described in some detail toward the novel’s end, and its bric-a-brac construction resembles Pynchon’s own building methods.) The flashbacks are mainly a matter of shared memories, and the incidents in 1984 that occasion them are not always the settings that the reader returns to when they’re over."

02/26/90 - [[The Nation Review - John Leonard|'''The Nation''']] by John Leonard: "''Vineland''  a multimedia semithriller, a ''Star Wars'' for the counterculture  is easier to read than anything else by Thomas Pynchon except ''The Crying of Lot 49''. Like ''Crying'', it's a brief for the disinherited and dispossessed, the outlaws and outcasts of an underground America. Also like ''Crying'', I suspect it's a breather between biggies. It doesn't feel like something obsessed-about and fine-tuned for the seventeen years since ''Gravity's Rainbow''. It feels unbuttoned, as though the author-god had gone to a ballgame; another, darker, magisterial mystification is implied, maybe the rumored Mason-Dixon opus. This doesn't make ''Vineland'' a Sunday in the Park with George, but at least it can be summarized without my sounding too much like an idiot."

01/15/90 - [[Vineland Review, Time Magazine|'''Time Magazine''']] by Paul Gray: "Pynchon's devotion to electronic allusions has been criticized before, and ''Vineland'' will no doubt increase the number of protests. It is, admittedly, disquieting to find a major author drawing cultural sustenance from The Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy instead of The Odyssey and the Bible. But to condemn Pynchon for this strategy is to confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they appear. As a contemporary bonus, Pynchon's folks would not even be interested in trying. That is part of the sadness and the hilarity of this exhilarating novel."

01/14/90 - [[Vineland Review, New York Times|'''New York Times''']] by Salmon Rushdie: "Vineland, Mr. Pynchon's mythical piece of northern California, is, of course, also ''Vinland,'' the country discovered by the Viking Leif Ericsson long before Columbus. It is ''Vineland the Good''; that is to say, this crazed patch of California stands for America itself. And it is here, to ''Vineland'', that one of America's great writers has, after long wanderings down his uncharted roads, come triumphantly home."

12/31/89 - [[LA Times Review - Frank McConnell|'''Los Angeles Times Book Review''']] - Frank McConnell: "''Vineland'' is, quite simply, one of those books that will make the world  our world, our daily chemical-preservative, plastic-wrapped bread  a little more tolerable, a little more human. Kafka says somewhere that the books we need are the books that are ice axes to break up the frozen sea within ourselves; and Pynchon, here as he always has, makes the cut."

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===The Color Blue in ''Vineland''===
[http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1990/03/reading-pynchon-s-prayer/ From an excellent article by Jonathan Rosenbaum] (1990)

The key images that organize the narration are mainly emotional and associative rather than strictly analytical, which means they often carry a great deal of ambiguity. Chief among these is Frenesi's blue eyes, which are mentioned at least a dozen times over the novel's 385 pages; the fact that Prairie has blue eyes as well only adds to our uncertainty about what blue eyes and the color blue can suggest, from predatory cops to the clearest of skies. Other linked images are birds and airborne predators like drug-bust helicopters that remind us of Brock Vond; a Japanese gumshoe, Takeshi Fumimota, and a female ninja named DL Chastain who was once Frenesi's best friend and is now Prairie's chief guru-characters whose romance and movements often seem to parallel Vond's and Frenesi's (with an implied rhyme scheme involving trajectories up and down California and Japan and across the Pacific in both directions); at least five electrical storms that shake up the atmosphere with apocalyptic portent; and various other totems ranging from figs and cucumbers to TV screens and shopping malls.

There is also the significance of Prairie and Zoyd's dog, Desmond, and the crucial way he links up with some of these other images. After an epigram from one Johnny Copeland ("Every dog has its day, / and a good dog / just might have two days"), the novel opens with Zoyd being woken up in his home in the fictional northern California town of Vineland  a haven and retreat for lost hippie tribes-"by a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof"  blue jays that are scavengers, stealing all the food from Desmond's dish. At the book's end, some 380 pages later, after Brock and his federal scavengers have confiscated the Wheeler home in the midst of a Bush-style drug raid, sending both Zoyd and Prairie into hiding, Prairie, who has returned to Vineland for a family reunion and slept that night in the woods, is woken by the tongue of Desmond, whose face is "full of blue jay feathers."

Desmond's "second day," in other words, suggests both a fresh beginning and a renewed continuity; the closest Pynchon comes to giving this a metaphysical dimension is in a passage from Emerson quoted by Prairie's great-grandfather at a climactic family reunion: "Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forever more the ponderous equator to its line, and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by the recoil." Whether Desmond's secret retribution against the blue jays is individually willed or part of some larger process is a moot point, but it is implied, at least, that Prairie, unlike Pynchon's earlier searchers, has arrived at a place where she can act. The movement between the blue jays as predators and the blue jays as victims is the distance she has traveled in her own education.

Between these two points, the blue eyes of Frenesi and Prairie are repeatedly evoked by other items and images: Brock's "hard, blued body" and his "sky-blue suit"; "pale blue" drug-bust planes, Prairie's blue overalls, Superman, blue haze, TV screens, contact lenses, spaces, shadows, and dwelling units; a lake, a river, the Pacific, and even such things as baby blues, an automotive bluebook, and a 12-bar blues. Beautiful and impenetrable, Frenesi's blue eyes are not so much a mystery that can finally be solved as a site to be considered and contemplated.

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==Page 130==
'''"Fresson process studio photograph"''' 
Photographic printing process that uses coal to produce paper prints with a unique luminosity and grain. Fresson printing produces an image that is characteristically diffused and subtle, reminiscent of the "pointillism" of Impressionist painting. The image is extremely stable; Fresson printing is considered the most archival of any color procedure in use today.

==Page 131==
'''"If you want real ninja product..."''' 
The whole sequence about hiring an assassin is pure cyberpunk schtick.

'''"The Vibrating Palm"''' 
This may be a subtle reference to the old joke-store "buzzer" or "shocker" -- and resonates nicely with the rubber scampi on the previous page. The Vibrating Palm is an actual - though romanticized - technique in Asian martial arts (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Death Touch of Death]).

'''"YakMaf"''' 
Yakuza/Mafia.

==Page 133==
'''"legendary in the dopers' community"''' 
Olympic Boulevard, in Los Angeles, is a major arterial road stretching from 4th Street on the western end of Santa Monica to East Los Angeles -- farther than Wilshire Boulevard and most other streets. Why is the gas station toilet legendary? And why would DL care anyway? All she needs to do is change into her disguise.

In his 2009 psychedelic noir novel ''Inherent Vice'', Pynchon mentions another legendary restroom near Los Angeles:

:"the notorious Oscar's, right across the border from Tijuana, where the toilets were seething round the clock with junkies new and old who'd just scored in Mexico, put the product inside rubber balloons and swallowed them, then crossed back into the U.S. to vomit them back up again." (p.37)

Because this restroom is right across the border, it's not the "legendary" toilet on Olympic Boulevard.

'''KFWB'''

980 AM in Los Angeles. Went to an all news/talk format in March, 1968.

[[image:dinos.jpg|right|thumb|Cabazon dinosaurs]]'''dinosaurs'''

Just another roadside attraction--life-size plaster dinosaurs on I-10 at Cabazon, California, about ten miles west of Palm Springs.

'''"baby-blue shadows..."''' 
Nice description and a precursor to the color of Frenesi's eyes.

==Page 134==
'''"beige hose, white underwear..."''' 
Pynchon's description of DL's Clark Kent outfits is surprisingly accurate, especially for a male. It's like giving the O-O (see note, [[Chapter_6#Page_79|p. 79]]) to a nice Midwestern girl, circa 1960.

==Page 135==
'''"She wasn't sure right away that being sold into white slavery would turn out to be at all beneficial as a career step..."''' 
The kidnap-and-auction sequence is good, fast-moving storytelling: breathless, tense, gripping, light on flashy effects. This is also familiar cyberpunk territory, especially the interview with Wayvone.

'''Lobelia'''

Another botanical character name.

==Page 136==
'''"older gentlemen with fingertip deficiencies..."''' 
Yakuza who have screwed up, and demonstrated their remorse by cutting off a fingertip.

==Page 139==
'''"Ufa, mi tratt' a pesci in faccia..."''' 
Literally, "Oof, you've thrown a fish in my face!" It's an ominous Sicilian warning meaning, "You've insulted me most unpleasantly, treated me in the worst possible way!"

==Page 141==
'''"I knew it!"''' 
Prairie breaking into the seamless narrative is almost a Brechtian alienation effect. By now the story is moving so strongly that we've totally forgotten the "as-told-to" frame.

'''"How could [Frenesi] have ever gone near somebody like this Brock guy?"''' 
Good question. Pynchon never really answers it -- unless we accept the idea of Frenesi embodying America's fatal fascination with authority.

'''"what-is-reality exercises"''' 
Reminiscent of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

'''"Ninja Death Touch calculator"''' 
This joke strikes another false note. The entire sub-plot revolving around the Vibrating Palm is broad comedy, of course, but this smart-ass gag is severely out-of-scale.

==Page 142==
'''"might as well stay home -- watch a Run Run Shaw movie!"''' 
Hong-Kong-based Run-Run Shaw produced the popular (and violent) Bruce Lee karate flicks, also lots of action-packed swords and sorcery adventures (like the ones that clearly inspired a lot of the DL and Takeshi sub-plot).

'''"yellow headlamps of the tech squads..."''' 
The scene in the Footprint is reminiscent of the monolith excavation on the moon in 2001. Also, most of the Japanese dialogue is phrased in Pynchon's unique, sounds-just-like-a-movie style.

Hai! Pynchon usually ends the Japanese characters' lines with exclamation points, so they sound like actors screaming at each other in poorly dubbed Japanese movies. Hai! Or people on meth?

'''"...the shadowy world conglomerate Chipco..."''' 
This imaginary entity (an echo, perhaps of the sinister YoYoDyne Corporation in The Crying of Lot 49) is presumably some Intel-like company whose microprocessor chips are sold world wide. No doubt the chips are designed to keep a covert watch on everything, and report back to Chipco -- similar to Byron the Bulb and his fellow gridmates in Gravity's Rainbow.

'''"gigantic animal footprint"'''[[Image:Godzilla.jpg|thumb|Poster for ''Godzilla'' (1954)|right]] 
Godzilla's size is pretty well known, and this (as we shall see) sauroid footprint is too large to be that of the big G. However, Godzilla is a product of Japanese movie model technology of the fifties, so who knows what the eighties might bring?

In the ''Godzilla'' poster to the right, the face on the lower left is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Shimura Takashi Shimura], Takeshi's namesake (cf. [[Chapter_5#Page_65|page 65 notes]]), who plays the scientist sent to investigate Godzilla-sightings in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film) movie].

'''"Wawazume Life & Non-Life"''' 
Is this a joke? And what kind? Maybe they insure things other than lives. Maybe Thanatoids get "non-life" insurance. Or it could just be a satirically "tactful" Japanese way of referring to death.

It's a joke. They also insure property and liability (zume sounds like "sue me").

==Page 144==
'''"Eastern bloc...South African"''' 
If you turn "RSA", Republic of South Africa, upside down it looks like Cyrillic writing. A political joke.

Hardly. Turned upside down you would get jibberish. If you look at "RSA" in a mirror you would get a (slight) Cyrillic effect. Anyway, Pynchon knows enough Russian (see GR) not to have made this mistake. It is not a political joke, but a geographic joke, if anything.

==Page 143==
'''"By the time...gods of the sky."''' 
Note that this immensely long and complicated sentence takes up more than half the page!

==Page 145==
'''"Singapore Sling"''' 
A frivolous cocktail with a pleasant flavor and a lethal punch: the signature drink of the bar at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, a British colony taken by the Japanese in WWII. Conceivably, Minoru might have been stationed there, and picked up a liking for this tourist syrup.

==Page 146==
'''"Chuck, the world's most invisible robot"''' 
Like the fastest draw in the West. Want to see it again?

'''"some planet-wide struggle had been going on for years"''' 
More Pynchonian paranoia.

'''"the Himalayan caper"''' 
Story is written in mock Le Carre shorthand. Here (as elsewhere) Pynchon penetrates to the essence of a genre and gives us a few masterly strokes that evoke the same effect as an entire novel by a lesser writer.

'''"Semtex"''' 
For many years, Semtex has been the plastic explosive of choice for sophisticated aircraft bombers and other terrorists.

'''"pirate ships of the stratosphere"''' 
Presumably, they mount attacks like the one on the Kahuna flight.

==Page 147==
'''"Kutsushita-san!"''' 
lit. "Mr. Socks!"

'''"We called you the Kid."''' 
As in, "I never did the Kenosha Kid?" (See Gravity's Rainbow, p. 60.)

'''"disco music coming out the club doors"''' 
Cyberpunk atmosphere.

==Page 148==
'''"The Yak Doc Workshop"''' 
This may be a riff on Doc Yak, a comic book character.

Or Yakusa Documents.

'''"Takeshi...saw Vond...and thought...it was himself..."''' 
Vond and Takeshi look alike. Does this, as they say, signify? Takeshi as anti-Vond? It's hard to imagine a dark Japanese and a light Caucasian looking alike, but anyway, there's one for each of the tomatoes: an adjuster (insurance or karma, ma'am?) for DL, and a badass for Frenesi.

I guess that's the joke.

Or, this was simply the visual effect of Vond's vampiric hypnotic stare. Takeshi thought he was seeing himself for that instant, even though Vond may not look anything like him.

'''"''gaijin''"''' 
Japanese for foreigner, stranger, outsider.

==Page 149==
'''"Found a cab"''' 
Once again Prairie startles us by breaking into the gripping flashback narrative, but this time the present-tense Takeshi breaks in with her, having just arrived at the SKA retreat. Very cinematic. Takeshi moves instantaneously from past to present, a double-exposure match-dissolve effect.

'''"Moe!"'''[[Image:ThreeStooges.jpg|thumb|The Three Stooges|right]] 
The first of several references to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_stooges The Three Stooges], a nothing-if-not-preterite comedy trio specializing in crude, cruel slapstick.

'''"fingering its smooth rigid contours"''' 
The mock-porno is cute.

==Page 151==
'''"I couldn't see shit."''' 
DL mistakes Takeshi for Vond because of her fuzzy contact lenses. This mistaken-identity riff is worthy of Shakespeare at his most far-fetched and funny.

'''"Eeoo!"''' 
Flash! Pynchon's ear fails! This just isn't as close to the Valspeak expression of disgust as we expect from our boy. The transliteration needs a little more "u" or something.

Totally disagree with above, for what it's worth. "Eeoo" is perfect, as "oo" automatically brings about "too" sound. Also looks much better than anything with a "u" would.

==Page 152==
'''"Takeshi with a softoff..."'''

Opposite of a hardon.

==Page 153==
'''"Fuckin' Vond. He's the Roadrunner."''' 
Yes, he is.

'''Kunoichi Retreat''' 
see [[Chapter_8#Page 107|page 107]]

==Page 154==
'''Father Flanagan''' 
Father Edward Joseph Flanagan (July 13, 1886 in Ballymoe, County Roscommon, Ireland; † May 15, 1948 in Berlin, Germany) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the founder of what is arguably the most famous orphanage — Boys Town. The campus is not just an orphanage, but now a center for troubled youth. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Flanagan WIKI]

'''"Licensed DOM's"''' 
Doctor of Medicine?

Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Cf. page 176

Also, in S&M slang, a male dominant.

==Page 155==
'''"Ninjette Coffee Mess"''' 
Navspeak. In the military, particularly the Navy, coffee mess is a little area where the coffee maker, cups, etc. are kept.

==Page 156==
'''"dorai kuriiningu"''' 
"dry cleaning" More Jive Japlish.

'''"perchloroethylene"''' 
A highly toxic chemical often used for cleaning movie film.

'''"croaker"''' 
A company doctor ([http://books.google.com/books?id=4YfsEgHLjboC&pg=PA514&lpg=PA514&dq=croaker+company+doctor&source=bl&ots=7JQCJ2j_2g&sig=OXn9PZtc22j-wLKaVNKHEld_Z0g&hl=en&ei=kRbATq-uPKTRiAKo0cSQAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=croaker%20company%20doctor&f=false def]).

==Page 157==
'''"Not a bar, Fumimota-san."''' 
Silly joke, nicely placed.

==Page 158==
'''"Evoex"''' 
The etymology of this new tranquilizer is clearly from the bacchanalian ejaculation (and crossword puzzle word) "evoe!"

==Page 159==
'''"Michiko Yomama"''' 
A nasty pun, based on the black insult, "Yo' mama!" Let your guard down for a second, and the guy slips in one of these every time.

==Page 160==
'''"Nukey"''' 
Orgasm and atomic detonation meet in one of Pynchon's most awful/wonderful puns (nuke = nookey).

'''sleep ... shave''' 
Meth-logic. Also a parody of the movie situation where a character must stay awake to live.

The classic film-noir [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(1950_film) ''DOA''], where a man is given a slow-acting poison and must find his own murderer, is also relevant to this chapter.

==Page 161==
'''"technically dead"''' 
Since Takeshi lives without fear, this makes him a perfect samurai, and echoes the idea on p. 29 about how a samurai is always prepared to die.

==Page 162==
'''"Just Like a William Powell"''' 
Echoes "Like a Meat Loaf" (p. 363), and, of course, Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues."

Movie references in the song:

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film) ''The Thin Man'']
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Come_Home ''Lassie Come Home'']
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_Finds_a_Son! ''Tarzan Finds a Son!'']

Also, Flatfoot Floogie refers to the 1938 [http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/gaillard-slim-biography Slim Gaillard] song [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Foot_Floogie_(with_a_Floy_Floy) ''Flatfoot Floogie with a Floy, Floy''] (original recording on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVeJ4wHWdQ YouTube]). The use of "real McCoy" may be entirely innocent, or a reference to the television show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_McCoys ''The Real McCoys''].

==Page 163==
'''"Which reminds me, about your PX bill..."''' 
If you had any doubts about the samurai/ninjette subplot being for laughs, this page should convince you.

==Page 164==
'''"Puncutron"''' 
An imaginary therapeutic device whose name suggests an infernal combination of eastern medicine (acupuncture) and high-energy western technology (cyclotron). There's a bit of "punk" in there, too.

'''"Detractors included...managed to keep."''' 
A silly sentence, written in painful mock-German syntax for no discernible reason.

'''"Taiwanese Healthy Brain Aerobics"''' 
More foolishness, this time mixed with music. The selection of tapes for Puncutron listening includes The All-Regimental Bagpipes play Prime Time Favorites (the Tube again!), and perhaps Pynchon's best judgmental title: The Chipmunks Sing Marvin Hamlisch.

==Page 166==
'''Jaime Sommers''' 
Jaime Sommers is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bionic_Woman Bionic Woman].

'''Eve and her sister, Lilith''' 
According to an ancient legend, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith Lilith] was not Eve's sister but was Adam's first wife. But Lilith haunts many different fables, traditions, stories in many different cultures.

Lilith is the eponym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair Lilith Fair], a music festival (1997-1999) of only female artists.

Rochelle is using "sister" in the feminist sense, as in "Sisters are doing it for themselves".

This is also interesting in the context that this is one of the only stories the reader gets in regard to what secrets/stories/philosophies are possibly taught at the Kunoichi Retreat. What seems clear is that over the years, they are more interested in making money than spiritually healing folks, so this is a nice tidbit, probably used to hook women into this Ninjette Retreat, and facilitate a mainline into their pocketbooks. Here used in a comical, and opposite way, re: Takeshi/DL.

Actually, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunoichi Kunoichi] Retreat is a parody of the many Zen retreats in Northern California, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Gulch_Farm Green Gulch Farm]. People pay to stay there and do manual farming labor to chill-out. In Pynchon's parody, the retreat is feminist and faintly BDSM. As Pynchon points out on page 107, they had to seek "cash flow" in order to avoid the financial fate of their predecessors, but there's no indication that they've given up their principles (whatever they are) entirely. See also [[Chapter_8#Page 107|page 107]].

'''"...men convinced us that we were the natural administrators of this thing 'morality'..."''' 
Sister Rochelle's feminist Eden parable suggests an interesting modern scenario: Frenesi = Eve, DL = Lilith, Vond = Serpent. This would help explain Frenesi/America's irresistible attraction for the authoritarian Vond.

'''Oscar Goldman''' 
Oscar Goldman is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bionic_Woman Bionic Woman]'s boss.

==Page 167==
'''"The Ordeal of the Thousand Broadway Show Tunes"''' 
Transcendental malarkey.

'''"YOUR MAMA EATS, how can we resist?"''' 
Aggro dining.

==Page 169==
'''"Cheapsat"''' 
Preterite communications personified.

==Page 170==
'''"Like Death, Only Different."''' 
While this is a nice definition of the "oid" suffix, it begs the question of exactly what Thanatoid's are.

'''"But we watch a lot of Tube"''' 
Thanatoids watch lots of TV, trying to advance further into the condition of death. This makes them Reaganite kids? Couch potatoes? Embittered hippies? Everyone in America? Anyway, advancing further into the condition of death is only a restatement of the law of entropy, which may mean that everyone in the universe is a Thanatoid.

People watching television in a darkened room look dead. They are immobile, and their faces have a blue tinge from the light of the TV screen.

At first Pynchon makes it sound like a lifestyle, similar to Goths. The name of a public Goth dance party in Berkeley was "Not Dead Yet". But gradually he makes himself clearer...

==Page 171==
'''"checking the edges of the frame."''' 
Does this mean Takeshi's in a film? Or is Pynchon just grabbing a handy cinema term?

The latter.

'''"go the opposite way! Back to life!"''' 
This anti-entropic movement makes Takeshi a great hero, a symbol of intelligence (the only truly anti-entropic entity), the life force. Cf. [[Chapter_9#Page_148|page 148]]

==Page 172==
'''"Shade"''' 
(as in Shade Creek) = ghost.

One can become invisible in the shadows.

'''"thick fluids in flexible containers"''' 
i.e., scumbags

'''"The Woodbine Motel"''' 
Harks back, perchance, to the 1870's, the Union Pacific railroad scandal, and the Credit Mobilier. When one party was asked, under oath, where the money was, he replied that it had "gone where the woodbine twineth."

Pynchon, just as Fisk in the above quote, is most likely referring to the song [http://www.musicofyesterday.com/sheetmusic/G/Gone_Where_The_Woodbine_Twineth.php ''Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth''], an elegy for dead Civil War soldiers. It was written by Apsley Street, a pseudonym of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsley_Street Septimus Winner], a 19th Century songwriter who was arrested for treason. Also, let's not forget the scary episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' called [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394103/ ''Where the Woodbine Twineth''].

'''"The Zero Inn"''' 
Very thanatoid, preterite and Zoyd-like. Also another zero.

Also, "zero in" = to acquire a target, to adjust one's aim.

==Page 173==
'''Thanatoids are "victims of karmic imbalances unanswered blows, unredeemed suffering..."''' 
So are the Thanatoids victims of the Seventies? Or another version of the preterites in Gravity's Rainbow? Maybe they're just over-determined ghosts of some sort. This description is similar to the kind of thing that psychics talk about when they're trying to make your poltergeists go away; it's the unresolved baggage that keeps the ghosties on the move, and out of wherever they belong. Remember, too, that Shade Creek is "a psychic jumping-off town" where the Thanatoids wait "for the data necessary to pursue their needs and aims (i.e., ghostlike revenge) among the still living..." ([[#Page 171|p. 171]])

'''"... they're ghosts."''' 
Here Pynchon flat-out tells you what the Thanatoids are.

'''"Although the streets were irregular and steeply pitched..."''' 
The description is an attempt to capture the effect of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher M.C. Escher] drawing or perhaps the Expressionist sets in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligari ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari''] [1920].

==Page 174==
'''Thanatoids are injured by "what was done to them."''' 
Here they seem like left-over hippies, Vietnam vets, America's victims. Preterites who want revenge.

'''"The amount of memory on a chip doubles every year and a half!"''' 
Sounds like a variant on Moore's Law, that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

'''"In traditional karmic adjustment ..."''' 
The Thanatoids are a combination of Christian purgatory (where souls wait before proceeding to heaven), and European folkloric poltergeists (which haunt a particular location where they have been wronged, until they see that their injury is avenged). Takeshi offers these Western ghosts the Eastern idea of karma, roughly, supernatural justice over multiple reincarnations. But this is America, so Takeshi's hustle is to offer Modern Karmic Adjustment, which speeds-up the process by avoiding the cycles of birth-death-reincarnation. If this fails, there's always the reincarnation route.

Since this is all a parody of California Zen and the Human Potential Movement, the question is do the Thanatoids actually need to be avenged, or only to feel avenged, i.e. to be at peace, in order to advance to the next level of Death? Does watching television dramas where revenge is achieved and justice triumphs dissipate their righteous anger, lead to inaction, and further their advance into Death?

==Page 175==
'''"Karmic adjustment"''' 
Well, yes, it's a nice progression from insurance adjustment, but what does Takeshi actually do? Prairie is still wondering on page 192, and DL never lets on. In any case, it looks like these Thanatoids are dead California yuppies; a resource to be exploited by preterite tradesmen.

Offered only as speculation: Perhaps Takeshi and DL take real-world, physical action against those by whom their Thanatoid clients were wronged, thus "clearing the books." Considering DL's ninjette training, this could include inflicting major trauma or even death. Don't believe it, myself.

'''"interesting work with airplanes"''' 
So, during World War II Takeshi was a kamikaze hence the same Takeshi who's in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']! (See Viking edition, [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_674-700 page 690]) This brings up an interesting, though peripheral issue: As a Kamikaze, Takeshi flew a Zero. A-and there's a reference on [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_663-673 page 672] (of ''GR'') to "Zeros bearing comrades away," reminding us of those human lives as binary code in God's PC. As noted, there are lots of other "zero" reverences (that's a pun, not a typo) in ''Vineland''.

==Page 176==
'''"Domo komarimashita!"''' 
Japanese for "Thanks a lot!" or "You're welcome."

==Page 178==
'''"Interpersonal Programming and the Problem Towee"''' 
Pynchon definitely has an attitude on this kind of California stuff. He also seems to have a grudge against Mercedes drivers.

'''"Sounds like the team I bet on last week."''' 
Vato gets to make the bad pun this time. This is a great montage of the growing relationship between Vato, Blood, Takeshi, and DL.

==Page 179==
'''"Vato wanted it to be a sitcom."''' 
Another example of how deeply TV has invaded our thoughts.

==Page 180==
'''"I'm Chip! I'm Dale!"''' 
A sly comparison of chipmunks: Disney's cartoonic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_%27n_Dale Chip 'n Dale] v. Bagdasarian's sonic Alvin, Simon, and Theodore ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chipmunks "Alvin and the Chipmunks"]).

==Page 181==
'''"a cement lounge deep within the Long Binh complex"''' 
So Vato and Blood either worked at, or were incarcerated in, the Long Binh military prison. Cf. [[Chapter_6#Page_87|page 87]].

==Page 185==

'''"less light on it than the space I'm in"''' 

Here Vato and Blood are having an "argument about light" - see p. 201

Also, it's a paranoid flashback from past combat in Vietnam.

==Page 186==
'''"octogenarihexation"''' 
86'd = thrown out, usually in reference to a drinking establishment. Is it a coincidence that this occurs on page 186? [[Chapter_15#Page_342|See also 43'd, p.342...]]

'''"Yuroks"''' 
The native American Yurok tribe lives along the lower 36 miles of the Klamath River, and along the California coast from Wilson Creek to Trinidad Bay. This may provide a clue to the location of Vineland County. Being Indians, the Yuroks are, naturally, preterite in the Pynchon universe. The woge (note lower case) seem to be Yurok thanatoids, therefore ultra-preterite.

'''''woge''''' 
Woge is a German word translated as surge, wave, or billows. The tale about the woges here is similar to those of Germanic mythology, & Celtic mythology, in regard to fairy folk, etc.

''Woge'' or ''wo-ge''' is a word in the Yurok language referring to a mythic race of intelligent pre-human beings. They were supplanted by the coming of humans, but somehow remain in spirit. They are invoked in the [http://www.yuroktribe.org/government/councilsupport/documents/Constitution.pdf constitution] of the Yurok tribe. See [http://books.google.com/books?id=CrGUkuQx6MYC&pg=PR32&lpg=PR32&dq=woge+Yurok&source=bl&ots=nnv0ftM9cx&sig=sHFK_BoGgmAgK1t-sgl5TNKa22U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kcU7UZ-VHcWzqgGj3oCgBQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=woge%20Yurok&f=false here] for more information on the ''woge'' in Yurok mythology.

==Page 187==
'''"Bernard Herrmann"''' 
The famous film composer, whose credits include, among many other great picture soundtracks, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's] classics [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%281960_film%29 ''Psycho''] [1960] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29 ''Vertigo''] [1958].

Listen to Bernard Herrmann's music from ''Psycho'' on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDtJUSYoLDE&feature=related YouTube].

'''"A Toyota in the treetops"''' 
Is this a tip of the hat to the boat in the tree in Marquez's famous novel of magic realism, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude''?

As surreal as it may seem, in California cars frequently drive off of mountain roads and fall into canyons. They are pulled out using teams of tow trucks. But they usually crush the trees beneath.

'''"...vanish unaccountably between Shade Creek and the V & B pound, as Thanatoid units...had been known to do..."''' 
Vanishing Thanatoid cars may push the envelope of fantasy a bit too far. And yet, and yet... They wind up in the tops of trees, you see. It's kind of like 'toon cars: 'toons can drive real cars, real people can drive 'toon cars. Plus, it sets up (much later) the disappearance of Vond's ride in Chapter 15.

==Page 188==
'''''Sate''..."''' 
A totally abrupt scene-change to Takeshi's, a literary jump cut.

"''Sate''..." is italicized, as if Japanese [Takeshi speaking]. ''Sate'' is an introductory interjection, like "well", "now", or "then" in an English sentence.

'''"Weed Atman"''' 
Another great name. Weed = marijuana. And [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed,_California Weed] is a city in Northern California. Also perhaps, an echo of Steven Weed, abandoned boyfriend of heiress Patty Hearst, which raises a very faint reverberation of Frenesi as Patty-in-reverse. Atman = Hindu for breath, the principle of life, the World Soul.

Cf [[Chapter_11#Page_206| page 206]] for more on Weed's name.

'''"Prairie was hearing this, in her turn, from DL..."''' 
Prairie breaks into the narrative, bouncing us unexpectedly back to the present. These abrupt break-ins by Prairie are fun.

==Page 189==
'''"Variety Loaves...not, as once supposed, safely dead but no, only, queerly, sleeping..."''' 
Thanatoid lunch meat!

==Page 190==
'''"... the theme from Ghostbusters (1984)"''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oznj6AFeiRE Listen on YouTube]

'''"Me gotta go"''' 
A line from Richard Berry's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie "Louie Louie"], made famous by the Kingsmen.

==Page 191==
'''Louis Martini''' 
Historic Napa Valley winery, [http://www.louismartini.com/ WEBSITE]

'''"FFAR"''' 
Folding Fin Aircraft Rocket Launcher, a rather nasty device attached to Apache helicopters around about the time Pynchon was writing Vineland.

'''"Kick Out the Jambs"''' 
Definitely a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_5 the MC 5] tune "Kick Out the Jams." But is "jambs" a typo or a pun? Definitely a pun, and a genius one. Thoughts of ninjas, or FBI, or whoever, kicking doors in. Also, apt that the MC5 were affiliated with the far left, anti-establishment, counterculture, etc. AND Pynchon deploys the same pun in [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_189 ''Bleeding Edge'' on page 189].

Listen on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35O1AJOfg YouTube].

The JAMs, or Justified Ancients of Mummu, are one of the anarchist factions in Robert Anton Wilson's ''Illuninatus! Trilogy'' (1975). On pp. 127-8 [Dell Trade Paperback edition], the JAMs are expelled from the Illuminati by a faction founded by Cecil Rhodes, who carry signs reading "Kick out the JAMs!" On p. 123 is the line "D.E.A.T.H.--Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn. Does Pynchon know?"

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[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "The relatively modest and heartfelt ''Vineland'' began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel."

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[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. It's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 his blog]. "A superb yet not entirely convincing entertainment, ''Vineland'' tries to find some rays of hope in a hopeless period by positing a fearless and resourceful but otherwise unexceptional 14-year-old and her half-buried leftist family history as our last bastion of strength against encroaching fascism."

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The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

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Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section.
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

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==External Links==

* [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 "The Spores of Paranoia" - Jonathan Rosenbaum]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ Babies of Wackiness - A Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'']
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_vineland.html The Modern Word: ''Vineland'']
: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==

[[image:zoyd-wheeler.jpg|thumb|150px|left]] Andy Beckett, of ''The Guardian'', recently re-read ''Vineland'' and ''loved'' it. His [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading article about the experience] is insightful. "Far from being 'a breather between biggies' as it was described by critics when it was first published 20 years ago, Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'' is one of his greatest achievements, argues Andy Beckett...

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[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. It's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 his blog].

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
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[[Image:Vineland_cover.jpg|310px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Vineland'' Wiki'''</big>

To become a contributor/editor, [http://pynchonwiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

:[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FVineland-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics-Pynchon%2Fdp%2F0141180633%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1197350297%26sr%3D1-2&tag=hyperartspynchon&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325'''Order ''Vineland''''']

This is the wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland''. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at [[Vineland covers|''Vineland'' covers]], read the [[Reviews of Vineland|reviews]], or [[Vineland Obs|provide insights or observations]].

<div id="announcement-home">
'''The ''Vineland'' Wiki''' 
The page-by-page annotation section has been seriously kick-started with the incorporation of the [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''"Babies of Wackiness" A Reader's Guide to Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'''''], thanks to the site's proprietors, John Diebold and Michael Goodwin. Their site still has excellent and insightful summaries of each chapter, but we've incorporated the page-by-page commentary. This wiki is Virgin Territory. Be the first on your block to amaze the world with your perspicacity!

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Vineland''']]

'''Download:''' 
[http://www.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/download/Vineland-Index_D-Albert.pdf "Index of Fictional Characters, Places & Things in ''Vineland'', compiled by Douglas Albert (PDF)]

</div>

==How to Use this Wiki==

The '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''' allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

==Page by Page Annotations==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed. The proprietors of [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ '''Babies of Wackiness'''], John Diebold and Michael Goodwin, graciously allowed us to incorporate their Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'' as a starting point for this section.
{{Vineland PbP}}
 

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on the ''Vineland'' wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index or Page by Page Annotations, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Discussion Subject|'''DISCUSSION''']]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "'''DISCUSSION'''" in bold and full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 "The Spores of Paranoia" - Jonathan Rosenbaum]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/ Babies of Wackiness - A Reader's Guide to ''Vineland'']
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_vineland.html The Modern Word: ''Vineland'']
: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineland Wikipedia: ''Vineland'']

==Featured Article==
[[image:jonathan-rosenbaum.jpg|thumb|100px|caption|Jonathan Rosenbaum|left]]If you haven't read '''Jonathan Rosenbaum's''' excellent and insightful [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 essay on ''Vineland''],"Pynchon's Prayer," originally published in 1990 in the [http://www.chicagoreader.com/ ''Chicago Reader''], now's your opportunity. It's available on [http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7460 his blog].

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Gallery==
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Enjoy...

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==Page 56==
'''"Kahuna Airlines"''' 
A reference to those silly AIP beach party movies in which Frankie Avalon was "The Big Kahuna." ''Kahuna'' was the Hawaiian title for a priest, expert, teacher, and/or adviser, and the term is still used in that context by native Hawaiians. A ''kahuna nui'' was a high priest.

Kahuna Airlines is also in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6#Page_74 ''Inherent Vice''].

==Page 57==
''' "Feel like Mildred Pierce's husband, Bert"''' 
Another movie reference, this time to a 1945 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Crawford Joan Crawford] movie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce ''Mildred Pierce''], based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain James M. Cain's] novel.

==Page 58==
'''"maiden voyage into the green seas of jealousy"''' 
Nice use of color and imagery here. "Green" both signifying newness as well as fertility of suspicious thoughts?

'''"ankling"''' 
Variety show-biz usage, meaning to walk out of, or quit. It's very appropriate for Sasha with her film-biz background.

==Page 59==
'''"those eyes of blue painted blue, as the Italian oldie goes..."''' 
The oldie, which is "Volare," goes, "nel blu, nel pinto di blu," or however it's spelled in Italian.

'''"on the astral night flights he would make to be near and haunt her as best he knew how..."''' 
As Zoyd describes to Prairie ([[Chapter 4#Page 40|p. 40]]). A sad, moving rendition of lost love.

==Page 60==
'''"sex fantasy...[or] ex fantasy"''' 
Always ready for a play on words, that Pynchon.

'''Hawaii . . . Suicide Fantasy Packages''' 
For another scene of love sick men wanting to commit suicide in Hawaii, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_12#191''Inherent Vice'', pg. 191.]

'''"Book him, Danno..."''' 
Zoyd's suicide fantasy features a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_5-O Hawaii 5-0] denouement. Most episodes of ''Hawaii Five-O'' ended with the arrest of criminals with McGarrett's catch phrase to Williams, "Book 'em, Danno!" with the offense occasionally added after this phrase, such as "-Murder one!". The Tube forces us to look at the real world via its pre-packaged perceptions. (Incidentally, the ''Hawaii 5-0'' theme surfaces at least two other places -- including the tune played by Takeshi's electronic Giri card.)

==Page 61==
'''"zoot-suit effect"''' 
Pynchon is still hung up on these baggy zoots, which were radical black/Latino fashion statements in the early-mid forties. Read more about 'em in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

'''"gig of death"''' 
Typical Pynchonian mysterioso.

==Page 62==
'''"dash-one"''' 
Military slang for the user manual. A common element in Pynchon's work is his peppering of slang phrases and references stemming, presumably, from his two years in the US Navy.

==Page 65==
'''"Takeshi"''' 
Pynchon is fond of transplanting characters from one novel to another. Takeshi Fumimoto is a perfect example. He made his first appearance as a bit player in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] where he was one of a pair of wacky kamikaze pilots. His first name is almost surely borrowed from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Shimura Takashi Shimura], the star of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla ''Godzilla''] -- a film referenced in the very same sentence, when Zoyd plays the ''Godzilla'' theme music to accompany Takeshi's first appearance. (Pynchon seems to have been thinking about this beast for some time: There's a boat named Godzilla II in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49''] -- and the word is that he loves Japanese horror flicks. In fact, at one point rumor had it that he was writing a book with Mothra as a major character.) Godzilla is referenced several times in Pynchon's 2009 novel [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G#godzilla ''Inherent Vice''].

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