Ideas By Ed Simon October 31, 2024 7:00 AM EDT Simon is the editor of Belt Magazine and the author of numerous books, including most recently Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost , Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, and Relic , part of the Object Lessons series. In the summer of 2024 Melville House will release his Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain T he nine-week voyage of the Puritan ship the Arbella in 1630 is almost as mythologized as the Mayflower landing at Plymouth