The Witches

[rich]

reading Stacy Schiff's book about Salem trials. One does get a fine deep
dive beyond the trials and hysteria into the Puritan mindset which due to
geography, religious, gender, political issues was a built-in recipe for
paranoia, a obsession with symbols and portents and all those other things
that differentiated the Bay Colony from others bordering on the psychedelic
and which Pynchon highlighted with the Slothrop family background. GR makes
a lot more sense in summary.

rich
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