IVIV (1) Everything that Hadn't Changed

[Dave Monroe]

   "He almost said, 'There's room here,' which in fact there wasn't,
but he'd seen her looking around at everything that hadn't changed
..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 4)

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


Cf., e.g., ...

"the actual residue of these lives" (Lot 49, Ch. 1, p. 5)

http://books.google.com/books?id=vp2Sv9KO1VUC

"Tantivy's desk is neat, Slothop's is a godawful mess." (GR, Pt. I, p. 18)

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


"everything that hadn't changed"

Vs. ...

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

An epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of
his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”). Literally “The more it changes,
the more it’s the same thing.”

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plus_%C3%A7a_change,_plus_c%27est_la_m%C3%AAme_chose
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plus%20ca%20change,%20plus%20c%27est%20la%20meme%20chose

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr

However ...

Negentropy

The negentropy, also negative entropy or syntropy, of a living system
is the entropy that it exports to keep its own entropy low; it lies at
the intersection of entropy and life. The concept and phrase "negative
entropy" were introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1943
popular-science book What is life? Later, Léon Brillouin shortened the
phrase to negentropy ...

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

"It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of
`equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic.... What an
organism feeds upon is negative entropy."

http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/MaeWanHo/negentr.html


"the authentic English Pub Dartboard"

The E.P.D.?  Can't help but (over?)hear ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60179


"purple pyschedelic bulb"

This one's too late, but ...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3889154.html

... but IS this an anachronism here?  Help!  But I may know Someone
Who Knows, so ...


"model hot rods"

E.g., ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/1959-CADILLAC-CROWN-ROYAL-LIMOSINE-STYLE-HEARSE-1-18_W0QQitemZ200282336708QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDiecast_Vehicles?hash=item200282336708&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50#ht_5692wt_941/

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


"Coors cans"

http://www.coors.com/
http://www.molsoncoors.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company

Aughh!

http://www.millercoors.com/


"the beach volleyball autographed by Wilt Chamberlain"

Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999),
nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards,
was an American professional NBA basketball player for the
Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the
Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The
7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain ... played the center position and is widely
considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in the
history of the NBA.

Chamberlain holds numerous official NBA all-time records, setting
records in many scoring, rebounding and durability categories....

[,,,]

After his basketball career, Chamberlain played volleyball in the
short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of
this organization and enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his
contributions.[6] Chamberlain was also a successful businessman,
authored several books and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer.
He was a lifelong bachelor, but became notorious for his claim to have
had sex with 20,000 women, a statement which has entered popular
culture.

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


"Day-Glo"

http://www.dayglo.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight_paint


"velvet painting"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_painting
http://velveteria.com/


"an expression of, you would have to say, distaste"

de gustibus non est disputandum

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/de%20gustibus%20non%20est%20disputandum


And note that ...

"Weeknights out here weren't too different from weekends" (ibid.)