Very festive cocktails, and just a touch old fashioned for the times. (And you're deeper into the Pynchon than I am. Distractions keep happening.)

I remember when bald eagles were almost extinct in the Lower 48. I like this situation much better.

I have never encountered this before.

Marianne was the exact opposite. Gardner used to say, "That's why they make so many different flavors of ice cream."