Upton Sinclair
- Meat Packing in Sinclair's "The Jungle"
The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one-there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.
J.D. Salinger
- A Perfect Day for Bananfish
She used the time, though. She read an article in a women's pocket-size magazine, called "Sex Is Fun-or Hell." She washed her comb and brush. She took the spot out of her skirt of the beige suit. She moved the button on her Saks blouse. She tweezed out two freshly surfaced hairs in her mole.
