Great books illumine everywhere. From Garrett Epps in The Atlantic on the subtext of Kavanaugh, if interested.

[Mark Kohut]

Once Kavanaugh was trotted out, however, the discourse became very odd
indeed. It reminded me of Thomas Pynchon’s parody of Jacobean revenge drama
in *The Crying of Lot 49:*

a gentle chill, an ambiguity, begins to creep in among the words.
Heretofore the naming of names has gone on either literally or as metaphor.
But now … a new mode of expression takes over. Certain things, it is made
clear, will not be spoken aloud; certain things will not be show onstage;
though it is difficult to imagine, given the excess of the preceding acts,
what these things could possibly be.