The Witches

[Monte Davis]

Now go back to The Scarlet Letter's descriptions of the forest and its
hints at all the shadowy stuff that savages, runaway slaves, and lovers do
Out There. All that you cite from Schiff, romantically/gothically
turbocharged. Is it any wonder out Mingeborough boy Slothrop is so
matter-of-fact about Geli's magic?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:41 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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