The phrase "taken a Brody" is used in Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel "V.": "And next day she would read in the paper where Esther Harvitz, twenty-two, honors graduate of CCNY, had taken a Brody off some bridge, overpass or high building." Pynchon also used in The Crying of Lot 49: "...my best guide to the Trystero has taken a Brody." It also appears in David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel "Infinite Jest": "McDade bitched at the meeting that if he had to watch "Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence" one more time he was going to take a brody off the House's roof."