The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

a Union that paid lip-service to abolition while it kept its own industrial laborers in a kind of wage-slavery,

Bendix guides the warheads in,

Your gynecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.

with the courage you find you have when there is nothing more to lose,