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"The Blood of Luddites"

This article from the New York Time is entitled: Is It OK To Be A Luddite..., and was written by Thomas Pynchon.

Here are a few things we understood after scanning the document.

The Luddites was a group that flourished in England from 1812 to 1816, it was an organized anonymous mass of people,  who were considered as counter-revolutionaries. As we already know, they became synonymous with the destruction of machines.
According to the Oxford dictionary, the name Luddite comes from a Ned Lud, who is said to have inspired the movement. His story tells that when he saw machines, he destroyed them. The article also says that they swore allegiance not to the British King, but to this King Lud.
The second paragraph is about the origin of the Luddite movement.
In the last paragraph, the author mentions Lord Byron, who was a politician who defended the Luddites.

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Whether
although
to swear allegiance
hosiery
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Warm Up
Prometheus
to steal / stole / stolen
Tartarus / Caucasus








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