Pynchon & Christmastime, follow-up

[Mark Kohut]

I forgot to work in a hat-tip mention of Eckhardt's post on
a Puritan Christmas and the creation of the modern Christmas
which fed my riff at the end.

And, of course, I also forgot to simply point at those beautiful phrases.
"tidings of explicit comfort, feasible joy" so great and so perfect
in the perspective of a relief from the Siege that is History. A
domesticated
carnival, maybe?

"Then for another moment it seems that all the Christmas bells in
creation are about to join in chorus--that all their random pealing
will be, this one time, coordinated, in harmony, present with tidings
of explicit comfort, feasible joy." (GR, Pt. I,. p. 70)


And LOOK what I found after writing! Non-violent anarchist Peter Kropotkin,
he of Mutual Aid and much more on Christmas as all that:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ruth-kinna/
anarchist-guide-to-christmas
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