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Leonard Richardson is clearly the man.

"You gonna dress up in a little camo outfit?" said Entippa. "That's chimp work, dude."
Tark hit the ground in a slide that left his tail an inch above ground. His feathers sucked up mud. "I pictured something very tasteful," he said, "with some cows in a meadow, and then I shoot them."
"And why is every carnosaur 'Rex'?" said Entippa. "It's like calling a human 'Erectus.'"
"Don't guilt me! I love Cass like my sister who's a different species for some reason. My half-sister. So, I'm putting in the legwork to find out who's behind this. I did a web search for 'I hate dinosaurs' and it's either the radical birdwatchers or the young-earth creationists."
"The Greeks had a word for it. The source of ideas that become profitable subscription-based websites. They called it the genius.

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An old New Yorker piece, by George W. S. Trow and Alison Rose

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy. For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.
Of the companies established at this time, only Atlantic Records was run by the dilettante son of a diplomatic family. Of all these companies, only Atlantic had a proprietor who liked Fred Astaire’s suède shoes or who knew the lyrics of “Dirty Mother for You” or who thought of an amusement arcade as a fascinating American Thing instead of a place to make a buck.
He continued to look for the inaccessible thing, the thing with authority, the thing that did not need his help.
These labels were, typically, run by men who did not insert themselves into the shaping of the music,
A coating of irony to bring out the highlights.
People who thought about the implications of this style (but not too deeply) said that it involved “nostalgia,” but in fact the style addressed itself not to the past or to any real appreciation of the past but to an ennui in the present.

'Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs', 'Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse'