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THIS!!!!!
that Kandy Kolored (THPHHHHHH!)
tangerine-flake streamline baby (RAHGHHHH!)
Naturally, most of the artifacts that these kids money-plus-form produce are of a pretty ghastly order.
But so was most of the paraphernalia developed in England during the Regency.
Now Wolfe is dead and one wonders what color suit hell be buried in, because cremation wouldnt do.
Does anyone get buried in a white suit?
Its no accident that when the right became ascendant politically Wolfe turned from journalism to fiction in the 1980s.
Instead theyre the meanderings of a huffed-up, right-wing, second-rate Sinclair Lewis.
Garth Risk Hallbergs 2015City on Fireis a softened, backdatedBonfire of the Vanitiesand just as disposable.
It was another softened disciple who was probably Wolfes most effective inheritor in spirit: David Brooks.
The pop sociology ofBobos in Paradisewouldnt have been possible without Wolfes example.
The revolution of the New Journalism was permanent.
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.
