<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Which I would not have sent, although interesting enough in itself, but for the reminder</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">of Pynchon re his love of Christmas, posted yesterday. Here in shorthand is 'grim counter-Christmas". </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">Did Pynchon predict Brexit?</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">"The British people suffer beneath a Tory despotism of previously unimagined rigor and cruelty. ... A sort of grim counter-Christmas runs from the first to the twelfth of July ... France, southern Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia have combined in a protective League of Europe, intended to keep Britain an outcast from the community of nations. Her only ally is the U.S."</p><p style="margin:6px 0px 0px;display:inline;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">- Nicholas Nookshaft, Grand Cohen of the London chapter of T.W.I.T., Against the Day p230-231</p><br></div>