GR translations: except for William the very first

[Michael Bailey]

a-and I think that old William's philosophy is heresy to the Puritans
because it has some wiggle room for kindness, which they found to be
anathema

so I think it's America's social darwinist puritanism that's being
lamented here, a wall against which the eggs (to use Murakami's term)
of the generations of Slothrop's have been thrown and thrown