"The night before New Year's Eve they wandered away from the kitchen and out to a kosher delicatessen a few blocks away. On returning to Teflon'sthey found Pig and Dewey gone: 'Gone out to get drunk,' said the note." (V., Ch. 1, p. 11) https://books.google.com/books?id=ddsyQlhcyYQC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11 - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l