GR translation: a genuine, point-for-point microcosm

[Mike Jing]

Also, are the "Microcosmists" the heretics that's being chased?  Is that
why they "leaped off to an early start"?

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V738.26-37, P753.12-23   “We were never that concerned with Slothrop qua
> Slothrop,” a spokesman for the Counterforce admitted recently in an
> interview with the Wall Street Journal.
>        INTERVIEWER: You mean, then, that he was more a rallying-point.
>        SPOKESMAN: No, not even that. Opinion even at the start was
> divided. It was one of our fatal weaknesses. [I’m sure you want to hear
> about fatal weaknesses.] Some called him a “pretext.” Others felt that he
> was a genuine, point-for-point microcosm. The Microcosmists, as you must
> know from the standard histories, leaped off to an early start. We—it was a
> very odd form of heretic-chasing, really. Across the Low Countries, in the
> summer. It went on in fields of windmills, marshlands where it was almost
> too dark to get a decent sight.
>
> What does "microcosm" mean here exactly?
>
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