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• Like an arctic winter
• Not lenient
• Acerb
• Like many Thomas Pynchon or Don DeLillo novels
• Unpleasantly coarse
• More than unpleasant
• Like a crow's call
• Like cold, snowy winters
• Unforgiving
• Scathing
• Jarring to the eye
• Like an Alaskan winter
• Extremely unkind
• Tough to endure
• Like winters in the Arctic