The Scarlet Letter, the former wrote, “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." And, of course, who can forget Bloch’s “Horror is the removal of masks"?Earlier this year, right before the covid scare went into top gear, there were rumblings that wearing a mask—a real, surgical one—in public spaces would become mandatory.
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