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uncomfortably weighted against the distaff
I assume in this case it means: weighted against the woman (i.e., Anabel)
The New Jersey sky was a low-hanging steambath of churning flocculence
returning with younger women who helped him channel his orgone energy into the farm's rocky soil
referring to a man who followed Wilhelm Reich's theories
Their unscheduled freedom on the weekend seemed sybaritic in comparison.