VLVL2 (15): Es Posible

[Dave Monroe]

   "By the time they got there neither could remember
why they'd picked the Club La Habañera, deep within a
thousand-room resort-casino much too close to the
arport, designed after the legendary gambler's
paradise of pre-Castro Havana, where the smoke of
genuine Vuelta Abajo filer and the fumes of Santiago
rum, smuggled past the long embargo, mingled with a
couple of dozen brands of perfume, the band wore arm
ruffles, and the sequined vocalist sang, ..."  (VL,
Ch. 15, pp. 343f.)


"Club Habanera"

habanera 
  
SYLLABICATION: ha·ba·ne·ra 
PRONUNCIATION:   häb-nâr, äb- 
NOUN: 1. A slow Cuban dance. 2. The music for this
dance, in duple time.  
ETYMOLOGY: Spanish (danza) habanera, (dance) of
Havana, feminine of habanero. See habanero.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/14/H0001400.html

Is Pynchon's tilde superfluous here?  Let me know ...

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/N%20tilde


"pre-Castro Havana"

E.g., ...

Week-End in Havana (1941)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0034379/

Affair in Havana (1957)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050103/

The Big Boodle (1957)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0050189/

Our Man in Havana (1959)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0054152/

Havana (1990)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0034379/

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0338096/

But decidedly NOT ...

Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (1964)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0058604/


"Vuelta Abajo filler"

Vuelta Abajo 

(vwl´´tä äbä´h) (KEY)  or Vueltabajo (vwl´´täbä´h)
(KEY) , district, c.90 mi (140 km) long and c.10 mi
(16 km) wide, Pinar del Rio prov., W Cuba, along the
southern piedmont of the Órganos Mts. Famous for the
fine quality of its tobacco, which is some of the
world’s best, Vuelta Abajo supplies a large proportion
of the total Cuban crop.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/vu/VueltaAb.html

Suckling, James.  "On the Road to Tobacco Country:
   A Journey into the Vuelta Abajo, Land of the
   World's Best Cigar Leaves."  Cigar Aficianado
   (May/June 2001):   -  .

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,216,00.html

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Issue_Index?issueId=44

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,216,00.html


"Santiago rum"

http://www.rum.cz/galery/sas/in/santiago/

http://www.indiainfoline.com/view/2809a.html

Or ...

Originally founded by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso in
1862 in Santiago de Cuba, Bacardi is headquartered
today in Hamilton, Bermuda with most production in
Puerto Rico.

http://www.rum.cz/galery/cam/cu/bacardi/

And see as well ...

http://www.wordtravels.com/Travelguide/Countries/Cuba/Regions/Santiago


"[fill phrase such as B-C-E-C-B flat]"

Okay, I'm out of practice here, and, at this
time/place, instrumentless.  What's this sound like? 
Looks kind of strange at first sight (albeit not
sight-reading), but ... paging Mr. Allonby ...


"[etc., board-fading]"

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

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm


	
		
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