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'''"Bach's 'Wachet Auf'... one of the best tunes ever to come out of Europe"'''<br />
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?"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
'''"The Noir Center Mall"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
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.
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'''"Maybellene"'''<br />
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] ]
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From what I can find, it means a mania or craving for public/open spaces.
'''"Dwaynasome with runny noses..."'''<br />Another cool name"hidden poem."
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'''"New Age mindbarf"'''<br />
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.
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'''"Times she liked to flirt, times she was out to hurt,..."'''<br />
Minipoem.
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'''"Inpo mode"'''<br />
Inpo is the Ninjitsu Art of Hiding.
'''"Juvenile Hall badasses"'''<br />
More badasses.
'''"arranged for Sid to work off the beef...[by making] an antidrug movie..."'''<br />
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'''<br />
Federal civil service code for a criminal investigator.
'''"Roy Ibble"'''<br />
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'''"her 59 cents on the male dollar..."'''<br />
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."'''<br />
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.
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'''"Perez Prado"'''<br />
Cuban bandleader, "King of the Mambo."
'''"the pink slip to his heart"'''<br />
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?")
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[[Image:ThreeStooges.jpg|thumb|The Three Stooges|right]]'''"the bowl haircut, etc."'''<br />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"'''<br />
Triglyph = three (you-name-em) letters, like ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.
'''"Panaflex"'''[[Image:Panaflex.jpg|thumb|Panaflex 35mm Movie Camera|right]]<br />
[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.
:'''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)'''<br />
Their "3-note blues" is a classic:
Fuck you, mister,<br />
Fuck your sister,<br />
Fuck your brother,<br />
Fuck your mother,<br />
Fuck your pop —<br />
Hey! I’m a cop!<br />
Yeah, fuck you, yuppie,<br />
Fuck your puppy,<br />
Fuck your baby,<br />
Fuck your lady,<br />
Yes I can,<br />
Hey! I’m the Man!
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'''"Musso and Frank's"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
A lot of detail is packed into a few sentences. Looks like Pynchon has been there, too.
'''"off the scale"'''<br />
Techno rap, meaning too great to measure, pins the meter, etc.
'''"Naugahyde"'''<br />
An artificial material designed to resemble leather, made from fabric coated with rubber or vinyl resin.
'''"red-and-gold-flocked"'''<br />
Flocking is powdered wool or cloth sprinkled onto material (here, wallpaper) producing a raised pattern.
'''"Did they scream?"'''<br />
'''"It was all for love... It was political... A rebel cop... The orders of a repressive regime..."'''<br />
Pynchon seems aware that his readers (the "companions") may be confused.
'''"Sometimes I think it could be my parents"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
'''"Prairie would show him secrets of pachinko..."'''<br />
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]].
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'''"Minute the tube got hold of you folks, that was it..."'''<br />
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"'''<br />
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'''"...down out of [the helicopter], hooked by harness and cable to the mother ship above, came Brock Vond..."''' <br/> 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"'''<br />
"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]] <br />
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"'''<br />
'''"The key is rapture."'''<br />
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--"'''<br />
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]]<br />
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."'''<br />
'''"...[Vond] was gone, following his penis--"'''<br />
A reprise of the lyrics from "Like a Meat Loaf" ([[Chapter_15#Page 363364|p. 363364]]): "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."'''<br />
'''"The Movie at Nine"'''<br />
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''].
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'''"It had been an unusual sort of car..."'''<br />
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?
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'''"As he drove, Vato told an old Yurok story ..."'''<br />
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.
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'''"You look a lot different ..."'''<br />
The Yurok myth explains why the bones of a corpse remain after the body vanishes. Pynchon intensifies the castration symbolism.
'''"crankless"'''<br />
That is, without amphetamines.
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'''"...she and Takeshi finally renegotiated the no-sex clause..."'''<br />
Happy Ending continues. "Whooee!" says DL.
'''"a fractal halo of complications"'''<br />
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'''"an inkjet printer moved along the the meridians of his naked skin"'''<br />
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 <i>gi</i> with trainee armbands" in acupuncture was being rendered unto Takeshi's body.
'''"an ivory fescue"'''<br />
Fescue = a teacher's pointer of high quality.
'''"When the Earth was still a paradise, long, long ago..."'''<br />
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.
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'''closer to its own chthonian fires'''<br>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"'''<br />
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"'''<br />
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'''"Russian Johnny B. Goode"'''<br />
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..."'''<br />
