An uncomfortable burning sensation

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In Boston, there was a huge problem. A man named William Pynchon decided that he 
was going to spend all his time writing all kinds of books and causing all kinds 
of trouble. Soon enough, in 1650, he completed and published The Meritorious 
Price of Our Redemption, and the General Court of Massachusetts had seen enough. 
Officials rounded up almost every copy of that book and decided, perhaps 
hastily, that they all be burned. Burning, as many New Englanders will tell you, 
seems a bit harsh when you say it like that, but they didn't have a whole lot of 
other options. It wasn't as if they could just dunk them in a giant vat of 
churned butter.

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