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[Bekah]

You guys are great!    Thanks for the very interesting comments on my  
scattershot.

158:    Chateau Marmont - an upscale Hollywood hotel at the end of  
West Sunset:
http://www.chateaumarmont.com/
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Hotels/ChateauMarmont.shtml
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Poor pathetic Jason - white suit all creamed,  can't find a woman (he  
scares them off!),   gets shafted on his weed deals,   and now left  
with just Doc to talk to.  So Doc primes Jason with some Colombian  
talkie-weed Doc gains info about the Golden "Fang."   -  It's owned by  
an Indochinese heroin cartel which is a "vertical package"  conducting  
all facets of the business from finance and growing to street sales.   
And that's the possible connection between Jade and/or Bambi and the  
Golden Fang as well as to  Mickey Wolfann.   Jason warns Doc to steer  
clear of the Golden Fang.
See today's Joseph Tracy's post on the "Fang" name at:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0910&msg=143481&sort=date

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Page 159:  Doc thinking ..."Wow, this Golden Fang, man - what they  
call many things to many folks..."

Is this a theme? - the 1970s  themselves was many things to many  
folks.  LA is many things to many folks.   Los Angeles is the Golden  
Fang feeding all sorts of addictions.

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Doc hears music in the streets and before we know it he's tripping in  
the music of a prior era:

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazilian musician - known for the Bossa Nova  
and "Girl From Ipanema"
The Girl from Ipanema” (“Garota de Ipanema”) is a well-known bossa  
nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for  
Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by  
Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes with  
English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel.
http://www.last.fm/music/Antônio+Carlos+Jobim/_/The+Girl+From+Ipanema
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Carlos_Jobim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmV0TcTNJ3o

Brazilian bar called O Cangaceiro -
definition is "the bandit"
Movie and song lyrics with that title from 1953 - I'm sure it's  
related somehow.
"Exhibited at Cannes in 1953, Victor Lima Barreto's O Cangaceiro has a  
place of honour on the Brazilian film scene for a number of reasons."
http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Ca-Chr/O-Cangaceiro.html


Bekah