While researching my next book, I discovered last night that the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri wrote a book called The Racist Delirium, published 90 years before Descanso! Of course, it wasn’t a Brexit satire, and it didn’t feature zombies, but the same racist delirium trope that I used in my novel is right there in Berneri’s title. So, it turns out that I’m not as original as I thought; the idea of racism as a form of mindless irrationality has a pedigree. Am I peeved? Not one bit. After all, it can’t be denied that with Berneri I’m in the best of company!