Them, The Ripper and the Mystic Tie

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From 'They All Love Jack'. Can't think of a better description of Pynchon's 'Them'

In 2013 the journalist Nick Cohen wrote a characteristically incisive piece in the Observer. What he writes of the English governing class and its Civil Service is as accurate now as it was 130 years ago: ‘The best way to imagine the British Establishment, is to picture a committee that never meets. There is no chain of command, which might leave incriminating paper trails; no controlling intelligence. Its members do not need to wait for instructions from on high, they know what to do without being told.’

One almost hopes Robinson is wrong for the post-Whitechapel murders of children are even more shocking. It's depressing to read
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