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3 unusual facts about Against the Day


Epworth League

In Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, a saucy secretary tells St. Cosmo, who has entered the office after-hours, that "'this place ain't the Epworth League.'"

Iceland spar

Thomas Pynchon refers to the doubling property of Iceland spar in his 2006 novel Against the Day.

Pig Bodine

Another seafaring Bodine, referred to only as "O.I.C." (Officer in Command), briefly makes a cameo in Against the Day, again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke.



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