Coordinate term: course

an underloaded aircraft

The allopathetic doctor, he allowed stimulants; and the homypathetic man, he advised cocoa and weak tea; and the water-doctor would hear of nothing but water, which naturally she is averse to, having scarcely tasted it in all her life.

As for Mr. Pynchon’s conjuring of millennial New York, it’s a total mishmash.