Inherent in Pynchon?

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Carvill John wrote:
>
>> The 'inherent vice of glass', ha?
>
> The forthcoming novel may rather deal with the
> "inherent vice of grass", though... "Bad for
> glass", as Mulwray's gardener sez in Chinatown.

inherent
1578, from L. inhærentem (nom. inhærens), prp. of inhærere "be closely
connected with, adhere to," from in- "in" + hærere "to stick" (see
hesitation).

[vs.]

inherit
1304, "to make (someone) an heir," from O.Fr. enheriter "make heir,
appoint as heir," from L.L. inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from L.
in- "in" + hereditare "to inherit," from heres (gen. heredis) "heir."
Sense of "receive inheritance" arose c.1340; original sense is
retained in disinherit. First record of inheritance "that which is
inherited" is from 1473.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=i&p=7

There's almost a synecdoche vs. metonymy thing going on there (by teh
way, do, everybody, see Synecdoche, New York if you can) ...

But given "ex-girlfriend," "billionaire land devloper," cf., as has
been noted ...

"One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Mass came home from a Tupperware
party whose hostess had put perhaps a bit too much kirsch in the
fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she
supposed executrix, of the estate, of one Pierce Inverarity, a
California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in
his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to
make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary." (Lot 49, p. 1)

One not only expects a Maas, not to mention a Bodine, to show up
somewhere along the proceedings, but the "BLD" here, if not PI
hisself, may well be an inverse Inverarity.  IV seems already an
inverse Lot 49, so ...