It is usually not wise to discuss matters of costume with people like this, — politics or religion being far safer topicks. - Thomas Pynchon

Like so many named places in California it 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.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, / Diamond fields and spouter whales. / Ills are many, blessings few, / But dreams tonight will shelter you.

If America was a person, — and it sat down, — Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.