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Ep 535 - The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Importance of Symbolism

The book is sort of verbal white noise for me a lot. I think my brain is just kind of sliding off of it because it takes so long to say anything. The forest is about sin the is there not a port in the book where there's like a letter A in the sky. Yeah okay. But what shall we say when an individual discovers a revelation addressed to himself alone on the same vast sheet of record that's talking about the sky? It could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state when a man rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long-intense and secret pain had extended his egotism over the whole expansive nature until the firmament itself

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