O. Henry, The Snow Man.
"...where she had expected the frank freemasonry of the West, she found the subtle tangle of two men's minds....
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), "The Snow Man", Hampton's Magazine. New York : Broadway Magazine, Incorporated, 1910.
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition.
"Damien maintains, half-seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century."
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0-399-14986-4 [p. 20.]. hc. 356p.
New York : A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2001. ISBN: 0-765-34498-X. pb. 549p.
Just My Type
Simon Garefield
New York : Penguin Group, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-592-40652-4.
Erik Spiekermann describes typographers in the late 1970s: "With Matthew and Adrian it was almost like the freemasons it was them and a dozen others, and they were glad there were whippersnappers like me about because most people weren't interested." [p. 185]
Harper's Magazine 2022
Hari Kunzru describes growing up in England in the 1980s while Margaret Thatcher's government continued to support South African apartheid: "Surrounded as I was by people who mourned the end of empire and feared non-white people as carriers of chaos and degradation, I found it self-evident that there was a sort of freemasonry of whiteness, an unspoken identification with the ruling white minority."
"Government Forces" by Hari Kunzru. Harper's Magazine, November 2022.
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