From the Facebook Pynchon Group site

[Mark Kohut]

Which I would not have sent, although interesting enough in itself, but for
the reminder

of Pynchon re his love of Christmas, posted yesterday. Here in shorthand is
'grim counter-Christmas".


Did Pynchon predict Brexit?

"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."

- Nicholas Nookshaft, Grand Cohen of the London chapter of T.W.I.T.,
Against the Day p230-231
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