＋"If Updike sums up the American tradition that celebrates the US post and the principle of union, Pynchon and Ellison draw on another tradition, just as deeply rooted, that fears and distrusts the post, seeing it as an engine of conformity, a tyrannous system that infiltrates private life and suborns citizens as its empty vehicles."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/these-swift-couriers-postal-democracy-and-american-literature/
- He may also have suborned perjury by urging another girlfriend to swear falsely that they were not lovers.
- The massive drug profits are used to finance operations and suborn officials.
- He apparently did try unsuccessfully to induce David's mentor to fire him, but that is a far cry from suborning perjury.
- He used his police connections and enormous sums of cash to suborn law enforcement all along the smuggling routes.
Calling all unapologetic Americans to join me and become a Pipehitter.
Pipe Hitters - Urban Dictionary
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Pipehitter. the hardest, wildest, meanest and most intimidating people in any city, state, or country. Every place has men or women that are considered the biggest and badest among their group of peers. Usually the kingpin of a gang, cartel or ...
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