Thomas Pynchon, in The Crying of Lot 49, describes a suburb as something that is “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.” Read about the visual realities–sort of like crop circle designs depicting a “hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning”–via a camera and helicopter, of the novelist’s description here (NY Times).
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