It’s looking like this is the rag decade, and the worst part —

we made messes all over to go with the last one, where we were lost and then

I contest the following.
“Gogol, Nikolay Gogol, with an M.A. in these matters, says gut feeling, sane behavior and noncriminal discourse teeter on the grotesque.” I can’t turn that down. I can’t propose only what his language suggests.