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Against the Day switches as smoothly from Tom Swift-style "boys adventure" to a Gothic prairie tale in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, as it does from reverence for historical figures and events to explosive iconoclasm. Its world is filled with dirigibles, barely perceptible anachronisms, photography chemicals, and ridiculously subtle puns. Nobody does Pynchon quite like Pynchon.