Dallas, Texas (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Even when I go to Dallas to visit a couple of friends who also work for Barnes & Noble, I ask them, “What bookstores do you have here?”"

"I picked up a brochure from the coffee table. It was the annual report of Darley-Higgins Management Group, with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I found a picture of Arthur Greiman. He looked happy and self-satisfied. The report included an essay signed by him entitled, "A Commitment to Excellence."

"Mike Bowman, a thirty-six-year-old real estate developer from Dallas, had come to Costa Rica with his wife and daughter for a two-week holiday."

"The pilot announced four hours' flying time to Dallas, where they would refuel, and then go on to Costa Rica, arriving the following morning."

"Shortly before midnight, be stepped on the plane at the Dallas airport, a tall, thin, balding man of thirty-five, dressed entirely in black: black shirt, black trousers, black socks, black sneakers."

"Printed in the United States of America byOffset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., Dallas, Pennsylvania"

"…then east Texas oil fields, then Dallas, then a long day's ride in a bus crowded with servicemen across the long immense waste of Texas…"

"…then Dallas with Culture…"

"On my way to El Paso, I had stopped in Dallas for about a week, to postpone facing my mother with my decision to leave El Paso."

"“This cat,” he goes on, “he says hes gonna go to Houston or Dallas—some place like that, I forget...."

"I remember a party where three of us turned on with marijuana in the locked head, and I remember: In Dallas—remembering—the doors of rooms left open at the Y and the steamy intimacy in the showers...."