I found this thought-provoking line in a novel called A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore:
“Still, mostly the Amish were buying up farms as is, and holding services in their parlors, though it was bitterly said in Dellacrosse that their wagons and trotting horses chipped and dinged the roads and that their houses were declared churches in order to stay off the tax rolls and that they bred like rabbits and dressed like bats.”
“Still, mostly the Amish were buying up farms as is, and holding services in their parlors, though it was bitterly said in Dellacrosse that their wagons and trotting horses chipped and dinged the roads and that their houses were declared churches in order to stay off the tax rolls and that they bred like rabbits and dressed like bats.”
Hmm. Do people instinctively disdain groups who hold themselves apart? Is there a strain of envy toward individuals who are completely uncool and yet don’t seem to care?
Is there truth to what the people in Dellacrosse are saying about the Amish? Do the Amish, then, have in common with hasidim more than just the beards?
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