queries inherent vice

[Clément Lévy]

Hi Auke,
you'll need to browse through the archive of the Pynchon-List to find  
this:

T-Bird agency:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140239
oppos:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0909&msg=141114

I guess the 3% solution is something related to drugs' use. Is it  
about heroin? According to an excerpt of this book here, heroin sold  
on the streets is less than 5% pure.
http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/04.htm (Alfred  
McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972)

Anything else, my dear fellows, Pynchoniacs?
Clement

Le 6 nov. 09 à 09:54, Auke Leistra a écrit :

> dear pynchonados, so glad i found you. i am the dutch translator of  
> inherent vice, and as such (is it any wonder?) i am hitting a snag  
> every now and then. more snags will follow suit, but just to get  
> started, could you help me out with the following?
> one - what is a t-bird agency (p6)? a t-bird is something one can  
> drink, i suppose, but i am not quite sure. i seem to remember it  
> from a james ellroy novel, of which i translated some (la  
> confidential among others), but this was more than some years ago.
> two - aunt reet calls 'most tract houses of her acquaintance' oppos  
> (p19) - why oppos? what are oppos - if anything at all?
> three - p38: 'one more west coast tradition down the toilet along  
> with three percent product anymore'. 'along with three percent  
> product anymore'? what can this (she) possibly mean?
> your help will be greatly appreciated!
> auke leistra