Nick’s Reviews > Inherent Vice > Status Update

"Today, early as it was, Doc still had to edge his way past a line of B12- deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beach town housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing along half asleep, chain smoking, talking to themselves, sliding one by one into the lobby of the little cinder"