“‘Long-distance, that’s the ticket. I got a cousin in Alabama, which he’s based in Birmingham, gets plenty of work long-hauling furniture and whatnot.’
    ‘I keep that in mind.’
    ‘Yellow yams from Birmingham.’
    ‘I place that on my list of things I need to think about.’
    ‘Greenest greens you ever seen,’ Antoine says a little croony.”

—Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997.