IVIV (1) Shasta

[Dave Monroe]

   "'That you, Shasta?'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf


"Tonight she was all in flatland gear"

As in straight?  Square?  Cf. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTM
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/
http://books.google.com/books?id=R6E0AAAAMAAJ


Shasta

Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity
in the 1980s. Wikipedia. Note that Pynchon has named characters after
soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in Mason & Dixon.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta,
long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria
sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here,
as well as wolfmen. See Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection.
Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have
been familiar with this mythology.

"Shasta McNasty" was also the name of a fictional band, the subject of
a short-lived UPN sitcom. The members of the band were three slackers
who lived in Venice Beach

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1

Mount Shasta can be considered as one of the most sacred places on
this planet. The mountain is a mystic power source for this planet;
actually, this sacred mountain is an incarnation of the Great Central
Sun of this universe. It is a focus for angels, spirit-guides,
spaceships, masters from the Light Realm, and the home of the
survivors of Ancient Lemuria, which sank under the waves of the
Pacific Ocean a little over 12,000 years ago ...

http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm

Frederick Spencer Oliver's 1894 fantasy novel, A Dweller on Two
Planets, is about the Lemurian race. In the novel, Lemurians who
traveled to Mount Shasta when their continent sank beneath the Pacific
Ocean, are now said to live inside the mountain in a series of
tunnels. Several other authors have since expanded on these ideas.
People still claim to have encountered Lemurians on Shasta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta#Cultural_references

In a detailed personal history of Atlantis and 19th century North
America, Phylos draws the threads of both lifetimes together in
familiar and initiatic terms revealing equally their triumphs and
failures and exposing the cause and effects of karma from one lifetime
to another. His life story is written in personal testimony of the
law: "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" and as a
warning to this technological age to not repeat the mistakes of the
past which lead to the cataclysmic destruction of "Poseid, queen of
the waves".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dweller_on_Two_Planets

Frederick S. Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets (1905)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm


Shasta

http://www.shastapop.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink)

With apologies to R. Fiero ...