Chronology in IV

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Otto wrote:

> Are we able to find out when in 1970 the action takes place?

I know when it ends:

. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99. This  
means that the novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday, a nice way to  
underscore the semi-autobiographical nature of Inherent Vice.  
Furthermore, this situates the ending of the novel just four days  
after the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970 - yet another way of  
telling us that the beach is being paved over and that the sixties  
have come to an end.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_21