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Part One: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Is the Past More Creditable Than We Give It?

Bai: I think people fetishis this in nineteenth century british stuff, ago. It's inf theway they're not allowed to speak. But when i read like a ivy comptan burnette,. She's really aware she's right in the twentieth century. And her people have servants, but they don't really, can't really actually afford servants. The servants are often staying on to preserve an old order that has actually passed it. Einteresting. That's the that's the past stuff that's very hard to talk about. One way of teaching history is to say, well, they were more or less like us. They had different customs and traditions. In

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