Three 1.25" flat magnets based on the cult novel "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon.

W.A.S.T.E. - You might find this logo painted across the back of a denim jacket, hidden under a discarded tin can, or painted on a rusty barrel inside a derelict building.  When you do, you know that you have found one link in the chain of the underground post.

"We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" - The story of Tristero and the W.A.S.T.E. system is one of many mysteries that twine between the covers of this novel.

The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy.

When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge. 

The aerospace industry giant Yoyodyne, which several characters work for in this novel, was re-used to comical effect in the movie "Buckaroo Banzai And His Adventures Across the Eighth Dimension."

Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937. His books include The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon.

Magnets may be used to decorate a W.A.S.T.E. collection box, a cigarette case, or your locker at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.