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Against the Day

And all that jass

Thomas Pynchon
Cape, 1104pp, £20, ISBN 0224080954
Buy this book at Amazon.co.uk
Sam Leith
Wednesday, 22nd November 2006

About a third of the way through Against the Day, we find ourselves in a bar on the bad side of town, thick with dope smoke and anarchists, jiving to the syncopated rhythms of one ‘Dope’ Breedlove. Talk turns to anarchist theory, and a young Irish insurrectionary volunteers that the Land League was ‘the closest the world has ever come to a perfect Anarchist organization’.

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