porous1473–1800 checking
ground: Hollar, Long View of London, 1647 · public domain

Put a question to him.

He is a layman of the era, not a divine — ask about a debt, a voyage, an illness, the government of a household, what the comet means.

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he answers as 1620 answered — providence, humours, and the era's prejudices, unhedged. a research artifact, not an oracle; it will invent a plausible 1620 that never was. how it was built