“I don’t know, but I bet even back in olden times, those mousey religious housewives were more scared of their neighbors than God. Who knows what they were like behind closed doors. But you know, when people talk about how they wish they could live in the past, when they fantasize about the knights and castles era or the Old West, I think that’s what they’re wishing for, to be rid of that pressure. They’d be willing to give up modern medicine and clean water for a chance to be free of all of this, the nonstop performance that comes with knowing everything you do, day and night, is for an
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This book is a series of social lectures thinnly connected by an uncompelling "plot" that still has yet to go past Act One.
