IVIV (1) Mickey Wolfmann

[Dave Monroe]

"'This the same Mickey Wolfmann who's always in the paper?  The
real-estate big shot?'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 4)


Mickey Wolfmann

... 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.

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

Cf., e.g., ...

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

Wolfman Jack

http://www.wolfmanjack.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack

Or, for that matter ...

http://disney.go.com/mickey/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse

Wolfmann, Michael Zachary ("Mickey")

[...]

M.Z.W. initials appear the same right-side-up & upside-down.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W


"real-estate big shot"

Cf. ...

"California real estate mogul" (Lot 49, Ch.1, p. 9)

http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1

Pierce Inverarity - Oedipa's ex-boyfriend and a wealthy real-estate
tycoon. The reader never meets him directly: all encounters are
presented through Oedipa's memories. At the beginning of the novel he
is already dead and is said to have been extremely rich, having owned,
at one time or another, a great deal of real property and holdings in
California.

http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Crying_of_Lot_49


"He almost said"

Cf. "'Thinks he's hallucinating'" ?

As well as ...

http://www.aspeers.com/2009/aghoro?fulltext
http://steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/2009/07/against-day-by-thomas-pynchon-part-3.html

bilocation
143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist
simultaneously in two locations ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B

"Could he have been the fork in the road America never took ..." (GR,
Pt. III, p. 556)

http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C


"a '59 Eldorado Biarritz"

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


the Esplanade

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


Palos Verdes

http://www.palosverdes.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palos_Verdes