Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 39 (1020):

Merle had been born and raised in northwest Connecticut, a region of clockmakers, gunsmiths, and inspired thinkers, so his trip out to the Western Reserve was just a personal expression of Yankee migration generally.

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