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“... the jetsam has its fascination: yet there is also a more serious problem, which the new study by Reeves and Gould directly addresses. By what actual processes are ideas preserved, circulated and developed? ‘Can the ideas of one person or group lurk around in the atmosphere, having, as it were, a continuing life of their own, so that they can be plucked out ...”

“... this personage. The logic of the situation as the Spirituals understood it is neatly expressed by Marjorie Reeves: ‘the true Pope could not err, the Rule of St Francis could not be modified, therefore a pontiff who did so and manifestly erred must be the pseudo-Pope of prophecy.’ John XXII, then, was the pseudo-Pope, or Antichrist. To get all this ...”

“... had lovingly been raised to a condition of latter-day martyrdom. Down on the floor, Governor Tate Reeves was describing his state, Mississippi, as ‘home to B.B. King, Elvis, Faulkner and the best catfish in the entire world’. Surrounded by blonde women, Reeves stood in the glory of his self-belief, his pink cheeks ...”