1: writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page
2: I came out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, along against the world, feeling assaulted, attacked on all fronts, knowing not my enemy's name nor his face nor whether our battle is done.
3: .... is that "I came here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now" but by Oscar Wilde?
