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My own obscure favorites include the first books of Honor Tracy (Irish-born satirist who makes Evelyn Waugh's work taste like the milk of human kindness), the dark early writing of Sigrid Undset (before her religious conversion, which radically changed her style), and the best novels of manners by John Marquand--all of which are largely unknown to contemporary readers (particularly young ones).
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."
Not so Evelyn .
Would that be the same Evelyn Lincoln who after JFK's death, according to Slate's David Plotz, "circulated stories that Jackie had had adulterous trysts in the White House" and "spent the remaining 32 years badmouthing LBJ and Jackie..."?
You can't imagine anyone describing a white presidential assistant--Evelyn Lincoln or Rose Mary Woods--this way.