As bad as it can get—as in societal collapse, fascist revivalism, and then the long Eurabian night, not over the entire Continent but over significant parts ...

Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive entropology (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.

‘Nobody of any elegance of manners can exist, where tradesmen, attornies, and mechanics have the pas.’

There, where he last had seen her face: And thronging memories, bitter-sweet, Seemed yet to haunt the ancient place: