Let's poll the Daily Telegraph's 1891 review of Ibsen's Ghosts

Lazar house! Learned a useful new term today.

Hey that's the tracklisting for my new OSDM record how did it leak

there's something to be about the phrase "literary carrion". It has to become the title of ..something.

Crapulous stuff

'A dirty act done publicly' or gtfo

weirdly this is word for word the Telegraph's 2026 review of the Green Party

I gotta go with "literary carrion"

"A dirty act done publicly"

That's the most contemporary

"A lazar house with all its doors and windows open" is where this starts to feel like gilding the lily. I have a lot of time for lilies, gilt or un-, but even I can't resist the pure concentrated sniffiness of "A dirty act done publicly."

"nasty-minded people who find the discussion of nasty subjects to their taste in exact proportion to their nastiness"

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I kind of enjoyed the overheated use of "putrid" as a modifier of "indecorum".

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sad i missed this, probably would've gone with A loathsome sore unbandaged

1891 daily telegraph that woulda spelt as “foetid” wouldnit?