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1 " I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if you could see through people’s clothing, then surely you would also see through their skin and right into their bodies. You would see blood vessels, pulsing organs, food being digested and pushed through coils of bowel, and much else of a gross and undesirable nature. Even if you could somehow confine your X-rays to rosy epidermis, any body you gazed at wouldn’t be in an appealing natural state, but would be compressed and distorted by unseen foundation garments. The breasts, for one thing, would be oddly constrained and hefted, basketed within an unseen bra, rather than relaxed and nicely jiggly. It wouldn’t be satisfactory at all—or at least not nearly satisfactory enough. Which is why it was necessary to perfect ThunderVision™, a laserlike gaze that allowed me to strip away undergarments without damaging skin or outer clothing. That ThunderVision, stepped up a grade and focused more intensely, could also be used as a powerful weapon to vaporize irritating people was a pleasing but entirely incidental benefit. "
― Bill Bryson , The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2 " Regin to Declan:" Lemme guess," Regin said. " You had your introductory spiel all planned, but rational thought deserted you when you saw me stroll in braless." ----" For the record," She continued, " it's not my fault I came in here looking like Chesty LaRue. You caught me on laundry day, so I have no undergarments on. Though I will cop to a little extra spring in my step for your benefit. "
3 " A commune of library employees in Moscow created an " extreme" commune in which all clothing - including undergarments - was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes " it would be characterized as a backslide into darkest capitalism; as prejudice originating in a petit-bourgeois ideology" . "
4 " Celeste rejoined him. " How you ladies do love a bargain," he said." You were listening!" " I left before you shared the secrets of your undergarments." Jack looked sheepish. " That didn't sound quite how I intended." Celeste blushed. " You should not have mentioned it at all. A lady's undergarments are not a fit topic for a gentleman to discuss at a military dinner." " Actually," he retorted, " you would be surprised at how often the subject comes up. "
