TRP influence, Hawthorne

[Mark Kohut]

In an essay on hawthorne, i was struck with this observation...which I
think the essay writer felt he was extrapolating from hawthorne himself:

Re: Puritan theme, he--hawthorne--ask: how do you write even a loose allegory
about people who felt they lived in an allegory...

Riff...

There are no wrong answers. F to all who don't riff, he jokes...
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