IVIV (1) In Doc's Office ...

[Dave Monroe]

   "In Doc';s office were a pair of high-backed banquettes ..." (IV,
Ch. 1, p. 14f.)


banquettes

BANQUETTE or BANQUET, n. banket. In fortification, a little raised way
or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which
musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy in the moat or covered way

http://1828.sorabji.com/1828/words/b/banquette.html

Main Entry: ban·quette
Pronunciation: \baŋ-ˈket, ban-, 1b is also ˈbaŋ-kət\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Old Occitan banqueta,
diminutive of banc bench, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English benc
bench
Date: 1629
1 a : a raised way along the inside of a parapet or trench for gunners
or guns b Southern : sidewalk
2 a : a long upholstered bench b : a sofa having one roll-over arm c :
a built-in usually upholstered bench along a wall

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banquette


"padded fuschia plastic ... pleasant tropical green"

>From N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser, "Coloring Gravity's
Rainbow,"  Pynchon Notes 16 (Spring 1985): 3-24:

  "Slothrop's identification with purple and green may indicate that
he is being transformed into a projected image, because these colors
habitually occur in relation to filmed or hallucinated images.... the
purple/green pairing indicates that Slothrop, like a cinematic image,
is receding from us through increasing layers of mediation." (p. 17)

http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn016.pdf
http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magenta_and_Green

Also ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140734
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=137147
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/CoverImagePopup/0,,9781594202247,00.html


"The tabletop between them was littered with ..."

Cf. ...

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

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

As well as ...

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

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

"... everything that hadn't changed ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 4)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140220


"an Olivetti Lettera 22"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22

The exchange begins in 1963, the year that Mr. Pynchon's masterly
first novel, ''V,'' was published, and continues through the time he
was working on ''Gravity's Rainbow,'' published in 1973. He typed the
letters single space on graph paper, until his Olivetti broke; then he
switched to printing in longhand....

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/04/books/pynchon-s-letters-nudge-his-mask.html

Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an
Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_15

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://site.xavier.edu/POLT/TYPEWRITERS/tw-faq.html#q8
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=1497
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0903&msg=133628


"some strange compulsive origami"

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

And se as well, e.g., ...

http://www.origamitube.com/