Not P but DFW: There’s nothing in the Yellow Pages under Flag.

[Mike Jing]

The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *The View from Mrs.
Thompson's*:

The overall point being that on Wednesday here there’s a weird accretive
pressure to have a flag out. If the purpose of displaying a flag is to make
a statement, it seems like at a certain point of density of flags you’re
making more of a statement if you don’t have a flag out. It’s not totally
clear what statement this would be, though. What if you just don’t happen
to have a flag? Where has everyone gotten these flags, especially the
little ones you can fasten to your mailbox? Are they all from the Fourth of
July and people just save them, like Christmas ornaments? How do they know
to do this? There’s nothing in the Yellow Pages under Flag.

I assume this means there isn't a category named "Flag" in the Yellow
Pages, is that correct? It seems pointless to have such a category and just
leave it empty, but that's just what one proofreader thinks is the case.
This person is taking everything way too literally and it's getting
tiresome.