Guess who's still struggling to read Wolf Hall? (I think I'm going to set it aside soon, if I keep having this problem, because right now I'm hypersensitive to this issue.) It's just that it feels demeaning, to keep taking ideas and beliefs that would have been normal to quite a few people if not everyone, and only holding them up as silly things
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(*And because what I've put together about it gives me the impression that it would feel like talking about Thomas More with my extremely anti-Catholic dissertation director, who is an Anglican doing Reformation studies at a Jesuit university and thus likes to think it's that rather than his complete lack of people skills that makes him unpopular.)
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I think More turns out to be kind of a jerk, based on some reviews I read, so it is a bit surprising that your mom liked it! Although I think Wolsey is depicted in a positive way, so maybe that evened things out?
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