There was a lot of yelling and gesticulating, and a few blows were passed. A couple of guards got rubbed up a little.

The conspiracist worldview that presumes a wholly designed universe is similar, and with a conspiracy theory, the holder of the belief in some ways imagines themselves as the detective or investigator, […]

[The Horse-Chessnut] was first brought from Constantinople to Vienna, thence into Italy, and so France; but to Ʋs from the Levant more immediately, and flourishes so well, and grows so goodly a Tree in compe[te]nt time, that by this alone, we might have ample encouragement to Denizen other strangers amongst us.

No amount of sartorial or physical detail, no amount of scattergun introspection, can create character (God knows how that miracle is ever accomplished) any more than the frequent, sometimes in-jokey name-dropping—Goldwater.