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[Michael Bailey]

Doc met Clancy after she got off work tending bar in Inglewood
(sez our narrator)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglewood,_California
Possibly germane here is that in the 1960 census there were 29 "Negroes"
in Inglewood and a busing furor was well underway by the time of _Inherent
Vice_, neither blacks nor whites wanted it...

The jukebox at Knucklehead Jack's where Doc and Clancy go
to meet Boris is playing "Runaway" by Del Shannon.
Doc takes that to be a hopeful sign.  Why? Who's the Runaway?

I really can't say.  Nice organ part, though.


"The pool cue in his [Boris's] hand looked about the size
a baton does in Zubin Mehta's"
and possibly he has similar artistry, at least he's able
to do masse shots while only "threatening" the playing
surface.  Doc seems to have similar skill.

Every pool hall I've ever been in, and a lot that I
haven't, has a sign that reads: "No Masse Shots"

So Doc and Boris have quietly conspired to get kicked out,
and Mrs Pixley, the owner of Knucklehead Jack's,
appears with a shotgun to do so.

You, too, can get thrown out of pool parlors:
http://billiards.colostate.edu/ has helpful videos



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