NP but Hawthorne

[David Morris]

Nice. Thanks.
Romance by your definition is drama and intrigue, moral and doubtful.
Doubting God.
David Morris

On Friday, January 11, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> As Tanner explains in his essay on M&D, the use of the subjunctive is
> quite important in Hawthorne and in American Romance generally. So,
> what is hinted at, suggested, seems to be, may be, is probable, is
> rumored, is said to be, is cast about and spun into competing
> narrative yarns, some doubtful, others apocryphal.......and given
> biblical allusiveness or typology...is, given the latitude of Romance,
> when exposed to the sun, to the light, as primitive photography, often
> reveals, if only in haunted shadows and ghosts of a walking candle, an
> Ahab and his wife and a man who is accused of blashpemy, his land
> coveted and taken...and a God whose Wrath seems to exceed his
> Providence.
>
> > Reading into The House of the Seven Gables for the first time since my
> > forced youth, I discover this: Early, Chapter 1, when Matthew Maule is
> > introduced > we are told that he had long inhabited his shaggy thatched
> hut but that
> > Colonel Pyncheon, > a man with an iron energy of purpose had asserted
> proprietary claims on that
> > land > (and a larger tract adjacent to it) when it became desirable
> through
> > legislative action and >
> > "It appears to be at least a matter of doubt whether Colonel Pyncheon's
> > claim were not > unduly stretched to make it cover the small metes and
> bounds of Matthew
> > Maule." > No written records. a matter of Tradition.
> >
> > Right here the probable theft of property for development.
>
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