"Merle understood that he must never if he could avoid it set foot within the limits of this place again. 'If the U.S. was a person,' he later became fond of saying, 'and it *sat down*, Columbus, Ohio would instantly be plunged into darkness.'" http://www.shorpy.com/node/16283?size=_original#caption - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l