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[Clément Lévy]

- lots of lists on pages 168-9:
metals in the Golden Fang building: gold, the brushed metallic door  
(steel or aluminium?), titanium
shops on Sunset Boulevard: "taquerías, low-rent hotels, pawn shops"
magazines, serious and funny titles: Foreign Affaires, Sinsemilia  
Tips, Modern Psychopath, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2000  
Hairdos, Guns & Amo. We have serious business, science and politics,  
stoners' readings, and lifestyle.

- colours: Dr. Blatnoyd's suit, "in a deep, nearly ultraviolet shade  
of velvet" and his bow tie: "raspberry-colored" are too close to  
contrast each other, they nearly match together, and the whole must  
be quite disturbing. Bell-bottom trousers and wide-lapel jacket are a  
must for trendy people at the end of the sixties. Ultraviolet is  
invisible so we may imagine a dark colour with a "black light" glow.

- "you'd have to say diagnostically" The reader is addressed here  
directly. It makes us a witness of the scene, as if the two  
characters were not alone in this not so comfortable conversation.

- we learn that the Golden Fang is a syndicate (not a union!) of  
dentists.

- D.D.S. stands for doctor of dental surgery.

- Darmstadt: the pharmaceutical firm Merck, based in Darmstadt, was  
the first to produce cocaine hydrochloride for a commercial purpose,  
see H. Richard Freeman, "Germany and the Transformation of Cocaine"  
in Paul Gootenberg (ed.), Cocaine, Global History, London–New York:  
Routledge, 1999, p. 84. On books. google.com:
http://books.google.com/books?id=kNS3Gwu1DdsC&pg=PP1&dq=gootenberg 
+cocaine#v=onepage&q=&f=false

- it's on the house, as the TV antenna man always sez.
Another "sez" joke! this one is similar to "like Godzilla always sez  
to Mothra–why don't we go eat someplace?" p. 10
I didn't check all of them…

I'll post more often tomorrow.
Best,
Clement