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

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

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

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 ...