Real Time and Narrative Time in Inherent Vice

[Dave Monroe]

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Real_Time_and_Narrative_Time_in_Inherent_Vice

Cf. ...

"The year: unclear until page 113, when we find Doc watching a
Milwaukee Bucks game on TV, and Bucks star Lew Alcindor has changed
his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so it must be 1971."

http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-7964-thomas-pynchonrss-lsinherent-vicers-a-must-read.html

Both Beaumont + Pynchon, however, are wrong; the year is 1970 (see 1st
link above), + Lew Alcindor didn't change his name to Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar until ...

"On May 1, 1971, the day after the Bucks won the NBA championship, he
adopted the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Arabic: كريم عبد الجبار‎,
Karīm ʿAbd al-Jabbār), its translation roughly "generous/noble
(Kareem), servant of (Abdul) the mighty/stern one (Jabbar) [i.e., of
God]." He had previously converted to Islam while at UCLA."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar#Milwaukee_Bucks
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