IVIV (1) LSD Investigations

[Dave Monroe]

"The sign on his door read LSD Investigations ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 14)

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


LSD Investigations

Larry "Doc" Sportello = LDS, as in ...

Kirk: "Oh, him? He's harmless. Part of the free speech movement at
Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/quotes

Lee, Martin A. and Bruce Shlain. Acid Dreams:
 The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties,
 and Beyond.  New York: Grove Press, 1985.

http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~449
http://books.google.com/books?id=e39s92O14EsC
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8123021/Martin-A-Lee-Bruce-Shlain-Acid-Dreams-The-Complete-Social-History-of-LSD

Stevens, Jay.  Storming Heaven:
  LSD and the American Dream.  New York: Grove, 1998.

http://www.stormingheaven.com/
http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~728
http://books.google.com/books?id=rKlGAdNUDAkC


"'Location, Surveillance, Detection'"

Cf. ...

"... it's doubtful if he can ever be 'found' again, in the
conventional sense of 'positively identified and detained.'" (GR, Pt.
IV, p. 712).


"a giant bloodshot eyeball"

Cf. ...

"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their irises
are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair
of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose...But
his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain,
brood on over the solemn dumping ground." --F. Scott Fitzgeral, The
Great Gatsby, Ch. 2 (1925)

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/

The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, a famous and long-running agency
started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the
phrase "We Never Sleep." See it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency

This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous
novel, Against the Day.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely
detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in this famous
poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball"
in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad
for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a
wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words,
"his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain,
brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_14


"the psychedelic favorites green and magenta"

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120718
http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magenta_and_Green
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/CoverImagePopup/0,,9781594202247,00.html

... and there'll be more where that came from ...


"frenzied capillaries"

Why does smoking cannabis make people's eyes bloodshot?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071216155306AAxucca


"commune of speed freaks"

http://www.mansonfamilytoday.info/manson.htm ?


Sonoma

http://www.sonomacity.org/
http://www.sonoma-county.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma


"often forgetting"

Cf. Doc, and see, e.g., ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803123240.htm
http://www.livescience.com/health/061119_pot_memory.html

However ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119120141.htm
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/marijuana-could/

And, in general ...

http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/