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If it was 500 years ago, you'd have been burned as a witch.
— Bob Bletcher ‧ Millennium
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a remark about someone unusual, saying that in a harsher past they'd have been accused of witchcraft. It's a way of marking how strange or uncanny they seem, though it points as much at old fear of the unfamiliar as at the person being described.
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