— Don DeLilloAll those lost landscapes. Nights downtown, live nude shows in cinder-block bunkers, slums with their dumpster garbage. All those depopulated streets in subdivisions at the edge of Metroplex, waist-high trees and fresh tar smoking in the driveways and nice-size rattlers that cozy out of the rocks behind the last split-level.
Replicated under Fair Use from Mao II: A Novel by Don DeLillo. (Pg. 12)