You know what time it is... "MasSUSchusetts" o'clock. (Patreon)

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2023-05-05 03:19:07

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Boston Brahmin Watchers, give this slightly-neglected installment of "The Secret History" some loving. It's like a prodigal problem middle-child, that was overshadowed by all the fanfare over its younger sibling (the Pynchon EP) that rode in on More Maypole Mythos's coattails. It's languishing some 70-or-so listens below its siblings. PLUS, you wouldn't want to miss out on the conclusion of the Saga of Thomas Morton or our discussion of the mythic imagery of the Maypole Rite and its ritual castration connotations!

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MasSUSchusetts (Pt. 2C): More Maypole Mythos, Morton, and Puritan Nepo-Babies by ParaPower Mapping

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping and the fourth installment of "The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts". It's a surprise double header! This was initially going to be one episode, but I got so obsessed w/ mapping William Pynchon's fur-trading monopoly and decoding the Rosicrucian wordplay in Thomas Pynchon's short story "Under the Rose" that I had to split this episode into 2.