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"On the Continent the mechanism of prosecution was at times so infallible that, when a contemporary asked some experienced German judges how an innocent person, once arrested for witchcraft, could escape conviction, they were at a loss for an answer."

"For 1659 he forecast that in May the Protector Richard Cromwell would 'manifest himself unto the whole world that he hath abilities to govern'. When May turned out to be the month of the Protector's abdication, the astrologer assured his readers that such political fluctuations could never been found out by astrology for they were obviously a direct manifestation of the hand of God."

"Being demanded what he thought of God, he answers that he was a good old man; and what of Christ, that he was a towardly young youth; and of his soul, that it was a great bone in his body; and what should become of his soul after he was dead, that if he had done well he should be put into a pleasant green meadow.

This, says Pemble, was a man who had heard at least two or three thousand sermons in his lifetime."

"To write "in the manner of" (...) was something that Proust mastered early and continued to do all his life. (...) He avoided writers such as Mérimée and Voltaire, since a simple, straightforward style like theirs was difficult to parody (just as drag queens avoid "doing" unadorned beauties such as Audrey Hepburn and are inspired by highly constructed women such as Mae West or Barbra Streisand)."