IVIV (1) As Dion always Sez

[Dave Monroe]

   "Sad but true, as Dion always sez." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 11)

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"it'd be on the tube," "at the edge of the screen"

Cf. ...

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Thnaks as always, Keith!


"Sad but true, as Dion always sez."

Cf. ...

"The lesson is sad, as Dion always sez, but true ..." (SL, "Intro," p. 13)

"Runaround Sue" --Dion and The Belmonts (1961)

Here's my story, sad but true
It's about a girl that I once knew
She took my love then ran around
With every single guy in town ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_Sue

Also, e.g., ...

"But Sloth's offspring, though bad -- to paraphrase the Shangri-Las --
are not always evil ..." --"Nearer, My Couch, to Thee," The NY Times
Book Review, June 6, 1993, pp. 3, 57

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/sloth.html

"Give Him a Great Big Kiss" --The Shangri-La's (1965)

What color are his eyes?
I don't know, he's always wearing shades
Is he tall?
Well, I gotta look up
Yeah, well, I hear he's bad
He's good bad, but he's not evil
Is he a good dancer?
What do you mean?
Well, how does he dance?
Close--very, very close ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YePzk29Mc
http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/trivia/snapper/hours/musicans.html

"Love, as Mickey and Sylvia, in their 1956 hit single, remind us, love
is strange." --"The Heart's Eternal Vow," NY Times, April 10th, 1998

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/cholera.html

"Love is Strange" --Mickey and Sylvia (1956)

Love, love is strange
Lot of people take it for a game
Once you get it
You'll never wanna quit
After you've had it
You're in an awful fix ...

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

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Playa Vista High

http://www.playavista.com/

The Tongva Native Americans once inhabited the location now occupied
by Playa Vista.  In the 1940s, the aviator Howard Hughes bought the
site and constructed an aircraft factory. He built his famous Spruce
Goose there. During the late 1990s, DreamWorks failed in its attempt
to build a studio in Playa Vista. Later, movies such as Titanic, Men
in Black, and Independence Day were filmed on the site....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_Vista,_Los_Angeles,_California

Mira Costa High is the high school in Manhattan Beach ("Gordita Beach"
in Inherent Vice).

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_11

I can't help but here a possibl, uh, play, hwoever, on "Playa Hater"
or somesuch.  Also, "vista," view, window, screen, sportello ...


"getting into the movies," "theater work, onstage and off"

Vs., pointedly, teevee?  Vs. ...?


skip tracer

Skiptracing (also skip tracing) is a colloquial term used to describe
the process of locating a person's whereabouts for any number of
purposes. A skiptracer is someone who performs this task, which may be
the person's primary occupation. The term comes from the word "skip"
being used to describe the person being searched for, and comes from
the idiomatic expression "to skip town," meaning to depart, perhaps in
a rush, and leaving minimal clues behind for someone to "trace" the
"skip" to a new location.

Skip tracing tactics may be employed by debt collectors, bail bond
enforcers (bounty hunting), private investigators, attorneys, police
detectives, journalists or as a part of any investigation that entails
locating a subject whose contact information is not immediately known.

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

Three Steps To Disappearing: Advice From A Skip Tracer

http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/70/Advice_From_A_Skip_Tracer.html


"a different karmic thermal"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/karma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thermal

A nice, appropriately Pynchonian (entropy, ballooning) trope there ...


Megalopolis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megalopolis

http://www.celesteolalquiaga.com/megalopolis.html
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/O/olalquiaga_Megalopolis.html


"Dennis came back with his Pizza"

Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with
the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_11

Source?  Oh, Tim ....


"a flat $1.35"

That a deal back in the day?  My parents were picking up the tab then,
so let me know ...


"sez"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sez
http://www.noslang.com/search.php?st=sez
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/sezwho/slang/

Alludes to the Mr. Natural comic book character created and drawn by
the 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb.
(Robert Crumb also makes an appearance on page 306 of Vineland)
Perhaps Mr. Natural's most famous aphorism was, "Mr. Natural sez, Use
the right tool for the job." ("Sez" appears numerous times throughout
Inherent Vice)

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Sortilège

Note multiple meanings ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortilege
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortes_(ancient_Rome)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sortileges

The act of divining the future by casting lots, also Sorcery;
witchcraft. Middle English, derived from old French via Medieval Latin
sortilegium, from sortilegus, diviner : Latin sors, sort-, lot + Latin
legere, to read. see Answers.com.

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"in touch with invisible forces"

Who isn't?  In a Pynchon novel, at any rate ...