Quaker State

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Coal or Oil? 
Now Doug, what does Mr. Hollander say about it? 

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Long Island, not quite Pennsylvania, was a Quaker State. 
Imagine young Pynchon visiting an old  Quaker Estate on the gold coast. 
The gold might me invested inconspicuously. One might have an antique
Jaguar in the 
garage, covered to protect it from old rusting farm equipment, but
surely we should take the wagon to the Quaker meeting of silence.
Imagine a library in such a house. More bibles than anyone could
possibly read, like an apple orchard, its branches swinging low with the
weight of bidden Fruit. Shelves piled with of agricultural texts and
religious books, some very old, with old maps,  minutes, politics and
business. 

George Fox couldn't read those books, but he dictated a Journal and
surely it would be there on the shelf, as would stories of his humble
life, the leather pants, the prisons, the preaching, the peasants and
coal miners, his visits to Scotland and America.