Fr though the most horror herein is that the main character is set up and literally groomed by his parents from childhood so that he marries his 1st cousin???! WTF? If this was such an apparently common occurrence back then — not all that ago on the evolutionary time scale — then it explains A LOT in terms of how so much of the population is either deranged, insane, or altogether mentally unfit. #XmasThoughts 🥳