"usual loud-mouthed American ass-banditry" 22
"Shit, money,
and the Word, the three American truths" 28
Slothrop's Sodium Amytal "trip"
60-70
"the westwardman" 67
"effectiveness, an American heresy"
[That is to say, a heresy against the feckless pursuits of the folks at the White Visitation, with their "pet schemes and manias damned [...] to differing degrees of failure" (p.77)]
75
"versed in American politics" 77
"intricate needs
of the Anglo-American Empire" 129
"Harvard's there for other reasons" 193
"Pretty snazzy [...] An Americanism." 195
"that damned American reflex
[...] bad guy in a chase always heads up" 199
"deciduous Americanism" 211
"American West [...] those virgin sunsets to penetrate and to foul" 214
"American
voices [...] high pitched and without mercy" 256
"The American vice of modular
repetition" 348
"a little American enlightenment" 359
"the sound of an American
work detail" 360
"a nation of starers" 374
"the young barbarians coming in to
murder the Last European" 440
"American Food and Drug people took the cocaine
out of Coca Cola" 452
"Gomera was the last piece of land Columbus touched before
America" 453
"it was an American requirement [...] a failure of will" 472
"American Smile" 476
fondly recalled by William Slothrop, 556
"the fork in the
road America never took" 556
American industrialists, 558
Bland's "meathooks
well into the American day-to-day since 1919" 581
""FDR [...] an American
synthesis which had never occurred before" 581
U.S.A. is a gigantic Masonic
plot" 587
"the American Founding Fathers were masons" 587
"the one
ghost-feather his fingers always brush by is America. Poor asshole, he can't let
her go, 623
"voices so hard and tough, so nasally like the voices of an American
chorus line" 635
U.S. may have been one of Ben Franklin's "cosmic forms of
practical jokesterism" 664
"typical American teenager's own Father" 674
Nalline's letter to Joe Kennedy, 682
"American Mysteries" 683
"Shit 'n'
Shinola" episode, 687-88
"As for our cousin John Bull" 697
"The Americans say, 'There are no atheists in
foxholes." 704
"America was a gift from the invisible powers, a way of
returning" 722
"American Death has now come to occupy Europe" 722
"yellow
American deserts, Red Indians, blue sky, green cactus" 724-25
"These early
Americans [...] were a fascinating combination of crude poet and psychic cripple"
738
