I think Richard ends up as David Brooks

I was actually repurposing that as a reference to everyone of our generation reading The Secret History
but it was, perhaps, Too Soon

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Centrist pawns only look on, frozen with apathy and frustrated desire for the paradise of white people and crisp fall weather. In the end the worst consume themselves.

Dark academia’s rotten core.
It’s a straight line from here to the
Harry Potter books.

(a rant) the rich and pseudo-intellectual long only for madness, amid New England scenery. Dionysus/Trump grant their wishes. First on the chopping-block, the feckless center-right.

yes yes, “Eliot.” This is The Mill on the Floss, Book Seventh, end of chapter 2.

1897! You know what I meant.

But the real Patient Zero appears to be Walter Winchell's 1945 review of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit."

earliest available context, in the October 1987 edition of The Eastern Star

that feeling when you're running mouth and then, oh haha, now it's on twitter
not that I was totally wrong