Good Morning from Manhattan Beach, 1970. Chap. 16, the IV of IV

[Mark Kohut]

Hey, how this hosting will go down and how I hope it will go down.

I take all the indispensable work on the Pynchon Inherent Vice wiki as a given, as necessary background, for MORE. So, read it, maybe, if you haven't and/or if you haven't had time to reread this chapter of Inherent Vice.  

My M.O. is to risk a reading or certain readings. I will try to 'generalize' fittingly, that is in ways we might in trying to
understand, to judge, a work of literature. (I know, redundant, since
this is what we are all doing. I only want to add: I try for things like
Portrait of the Artist as a History Detective, generalizing from TRPs
whole oeuvre.) 

Close readings are at the base, I hope. If I miss anything you want to discuss, bring it up, please. 

Again, as if this needed saying: Every man, [or woman,] is entitled to his own opinion, and every other man, [or woman,] is entitled to knock him down for it. ----Samuel Johnson

First. See the timeline on the wiki some careful reader has reconstructed. 
It shows that in this chapter and the next, THERE IS AN EXTRA DAY! WTF?
Did TRP just slip here, as Hemingway has been found to do in one of his,
Sun Also Rises, I think? Or, is it purposeful and therefore meaningful? 
We do know how TRP has focussed on 'lost time' in M & D and time in all the work, esp. AtD, with time travel and more.

 We do know some rooms in his works are bigger on the inside than can be seen from the outside. Is this true of time herein? 

Now Everyone--------