Go up into the gaps (5)

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5. Go up into the gaps

Nichol helps us understand the contradiction of Winthrop’s inspired vision for the New World and the on-the-ground reality the Puritans experienced when they landed there:

the contradiction is

to spend your life on land

trance fixed in

the sea

contra the diction is

the land wage

(when the water comes

~ sea pun ~ you pay a

price)

pays

flood

flawed

flowed

(how you move from

imperfection to imperfection in

th...