Holey Trinity (The End of the World News, by Anthony Burgess)

HOLEY TRINITY

The worst bit of news about the future is that they’re going to name an airport after John Lindsay. The second worst is that the world is going to end after a rogue planet named Lynx plays havoc with the earth’s tides and then, after a sneaky retreat around the sun, comes back for a direct apocalyptic hit. The End of the World News, Anthony Burgess’s 26th or so novel (counts may vary), does not, however, find this a big enough subject by itself. Alternating with this Lynx story is a biography of Sigmund Freud (intended as background for a TV docu-drama) and the script for a musical about Trotsky’s visit to New York in 1917.

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Thomas Mallon

HOLEY TRINITY

The worst bit of news about the future is that they’re going to name an airport after John Lindsay. The second worst is that the world is going to end after a rogue planet named Lynx plays havoc with the earth’s tides and then, after a sneaky retreat around the sun, comes back for a direct apocalyptic hit. The End of the World News, Anthony Burgess’s 26th or so novel (counts may vary), does not, however, find this a big enough subject by itself. Alternating with this Lynx story is a biography of Sigmund Freud (intended as background for a TV docu-drama) and the script for a musical about Trotsky’s visit to New York in 1917.