IVIV (1) What Made Him Unusual Was ...

[Dave Monroe]

"What made him unusual was, he was a black guy." (IV, Ch, 1, p. 14)


Harbor Freeway

The Harbor Freeway is, with the Long Beach Freeway, the principal
means for freight to get from the port of Los Angeles to rail yards
and warehouses further inland....

A portion of the Harbor Freeway is shown on the cover of punk rock
legends The Minutemen's double-album, Double Nickels on the Dime; the
sign shown for San Pedro (the band's hometown) uses the old
designation of California State Highway 11 .

http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Harbor:Freeway.html

Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_110_and_State_Route_110_(California)


"the usual range"

Comments?  Let me know ...


"Last time anyone could remember ..."

Which isn't necessarily all that long ago here ...


"a black motorist"

Driving While Black, abbreviated as DWB, is a phrase in the
contemporary American vernacular that refers to the criminalization of
black drivers. An alternate phrase, Driving While Brown, is more
encompassing, referring to the crime of being a non-European American
driver....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_While_Black
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/03justice/dwb01.htm


"a small task force"

http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/27/simpson.chase/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case


"helpful advice from the Ku Klux Klan"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp


"the laws of karmic adjustment"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in Vineland. See pg. 173, for example.
http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173

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


Tariq Khlail

The name Tariq from the Sufi tradition (the Tariqas orders) has three
related meanings in the Arabic language:

• Ṭāriq is the noun to the Arabic verb ṭaraqa (Arabic: طرق‎ meaning
"messenger / knocking") and for this reason means deliverer of
messages / the knocking one.

• The second meaning is from the Qur'an, where ṭāriq is the name of
the morning star, which is described as the shining star that leads
the way. More recent discoveries about pulsar stars have prompted some
scholars to associate those Neutronic stars with ṭāriq, where knocking
equates pulsing.

• The third meaning is a 'Traveler through the night'. More
specifically a pathbreaker or finder. He who leads the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81riq

The boy's name Khalil \k-halil, kha-lil\ is pronounced ka-LEEL. It is
of Arabic origin, and its meaning is "friend".

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Khalil

E.g., ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran