IVIV (1) Back at His Place Again

[Dave Monroe]

"Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie,
found an old t-shirt ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 12)


"southern-plantation style"

A la (?) ...

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/more/082.htm
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/more/171.htm
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/more/darktan.htm
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/more/twostep.htm


"he may or may not have fallen asleep"

Again, bilocation, roads not taken, u.s.w., et soforthiam ...


"white-guy Afro"

http://dethroner.com/2007/01/16/ultimate-hair-risk-white-boy-afro/


"It wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that."

This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his
works: "not X, exactly, but Y ...." For instance, Gravity's Rainbow,
pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an
air raid but something close to that."; Gravity's Rainbow, pg 580:
"Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_12


Wavos

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

Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English,
Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a
popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the
sixties and seventies.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_12


Flaco the Bad

Etymology: Latin flaccus.

Adjective: flaco m. (feminine flaca, masculine plural flacos, feminine
plural flacas)
thin, skinny
Synonyms: delgado
Antonyms: gordo [cf. Gordita]

Noun: flaco m. (plural flacos)
Singular: flaco m.
Plural: flacos m.
A (or the) thin man
# (informal, euphemism) Urine; urination; number two

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flaco

E.g.,. ...

http://www.flacojimenezmusic.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaco_Jim%C3%A9nez


"a really dinged-up El Camino, the one with the 396," (IV, Ch.1, p. 12)

1966 brought added a 396 cu in (6.5 L) V8 engine to the lineup rated
from 325 to 375 hp (280 kW)....

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

Comments: The 1966 El Camino saw the introduction of the mighty 396
engines, with either a 325 bhp or 350 bhp version available....

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/chevrolet-elcamino/chevrolet-elcamino-history.shtml


"He might have been thinking about it but said something like ..."

Again, uncertainty, indeterminacy, uh, short term memory loss, et
soforthiam ,....