The Witches

[rich]

Yep. though according to Schiff the MA Puritans didnt accuse its witches of
sexual misdeeds like they did in other places, like on the continent. no
late night orgies at midnight or roving incubi/succubi. of course, women
bore the brunt, solely gender bias. guess Puritans being Puritans even
their evil adversary werent accorded such luxuries. which does give us
something to think about w/r/t Slothrop and the penis that wasnt his own

rich

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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