IVIV (1) Glen Charlock

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Okay, so there's this guy I was in the joint with....'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 15)

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


Glen Charlock

Cf. (?) ...

http://www.glenmatlock.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Matlock

The meaning of the name Glen is From The Wooded Valley

The origin of the name Glen is Scottish

http://www.babynames.com/name/GLEN

A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often
glacially U-shaped; or one with a watercourse running through such a
valley. The word comes from the Irish language/Scottish Gaelic
language word gleann, or glion in Manx. In Manx, glan is also to be
found meaning glen. As the name of a river, it is thought to derive
from the Welsh language glan meaning clean, or gleindid meaning
purity.

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

In Norse mythology, Glenr (Old Norse "opening in the clouds"[1]) is
the husband of the goddess Sól, who drives the horses of the sun
across the sky.

Glenr is also an alternate name for Glær, one of the horses listed
among those ridden by the gods, according to Gylfaginning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_(Norse_mythology)

Main Entry: char·lock
Pronunciation: \ˈchär-ˌläk, -lək\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English cherlok, from Old English cerlic
Date: before 12th century
: an Old World mustard (Brassica kaber syn. Sinapis arvensis) that is
a common weed in grain fields —called also wild mustard

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinapis_arvensis
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SIAR4
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_SINA_ARV.html
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33965
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=7625

Mustard flower essence remedy shortens dark and gloomy days, lifting
the spirit from the depths of despair. It is a good treatment choice
for anyone battling bouts of depression or anxiety. It brings sunshine
to the despondent or discouraged soul.

http://healing.about.com/od/flowerprofiles/p/mustard.htm


"paranoia alert"

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

E.g., ...

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Paranoia/Connectedness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow#Plot_Summary

The Paranoids

http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Paranoids

Proverbs for Paranoids

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/paranoid.htm
http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P#proverbs

Scientists Are Learning How Weed Causes Paranoia

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/chem-lab-the-sc/

Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm


Sledge Poteet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poteet,_Texas

Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from Vineland.
He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for
enlightenment through asskicking."

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_14
http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10#Page_197

Again, any discernable connection with Aunt Reet (cf. Jackie Wilson,
"Reet Petite")?  Help!  Thanks!

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140239


"a situation back in '67"

?  Help!  Thanks!


"Arrowhead Springs water, club soda, Perrier"

http://www.arrowheadwater.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water

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

http://www.usa.perrier.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrier


"Black Guerrilla Family ... George Jackson's outfit"

The Black Guerrilla Family (also known as the Black Family or the
Black Vanguard) is a prison gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson
while he was in the San Quentin State Prison in Marin County,
California, north of San Francisco. The gang is the most
ideologically-based of prison gangs, established as an
African-American Marxist revolutionary organization. It was founded
with the stated goals of eradicating racism, maintaining dignity in
prison and overthrowing the United States government. Historically, it
was associated with a number of leftist groups, including the Black
Liberation Army, Symbionese Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
The Black Guerrilla Family is strongly organized on both the East and
West coasts, and cooperates with the Nuestra Familia, the Bloods, and
the Crips. It poses the greatest danger to correctional staff as the
gang perceives them as representatives of the government.

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

George Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American
convict, who became a communist and a member of the Black Panther
Party while in prison, where he spent the last 12 years of his life.
He was one of the Soledad Brothers and achieved fame due to a book of
published letters....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jackson_(Black_Panther)

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_16


"He the Boilerman"

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

What ARE they talking about here, really?


"that racial harmony"

Politics = strange bedfellows?  Cf. (?) ...

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/97007865.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Redneck_Manifesto_(book)

Contra ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)




"Artesia Crips"

This is a potential anachronism. The novel ostensibly takes place in
1970, since it is after Charles Manson's arrest in December 1969 but
before the trial began in mid-1970. However, many reports indicate the
L.A. street gang that would eventually be called the Crips was not
founded by Raymond Washington and Tookie Williams until 1971, and it
was originally called the Baby Avenues, then the Cribs, and finally
Crips.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_16

Cf. (?) ...

Artesian aquifer

An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater that
will flow upward through a well without the need for pumping. Water
may even reach the ground surface if the natural pressure is high
enough, in which case the well is called a flowing artesian well. An
aquifer provides the water for an artesian well. An aquifer is a layer
of soft rock, like limestone or sandstone, that absorbs water from an
inlet path. Porous stone is confined between impermeable rocks or
clay. This keeps the pressure high, so when the water finds an outlet,
it overcomes gravity and goes up instead of down.

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