Si Vede La Mafia?

Reading Chapter 3 I found myself with something quite repetitive: La Cosa Nostra. Once I read that, I had a sudden flashback to a class when my friends were mocking me about the italian mafia. It all came back to me,  Cosa Nostra "is a Sicialian criminal society which is believed to have emerged in late 19th century Sicily, and the first such society to be referred to as a mafia (although it is not the first organized criminal society to appear in Italy)" (wikipedia).

Pychon's target here is the mafia wars dealt with in the 60's, but i found it interesting how he mocked them. The bone thing was quite awkward, he writes:"Tony Jaguar decided he could surely unload his harvest of bones on some American someplace, through his contacts in the "family,"known these days as Cosa Nostra" (47). In that time there was more of a market of heroin, it was the first mafia war.

What makes it more humorous is how Di Presso is running away from his own client, maybe showing the conspiracy held in the Mafia's in that time and how dangerous they were.