I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover.

Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through.

Much people followed him, and thronged him.

In the Wishverse, many of the good characters have been turned bad or are dead.