Are these literary stars earning their stripes at the expense of our literature real or disposable; and, if so, does that not speak to our cultural desuetude?
The nation itself has descended several notches in the ladder of decay and desuetude but it is still miraculously hanging on against all existential odds.
It has also been pointed out that these institutions had in his time largely fallen into desuetude, and his descriptions may be partly artificial and fanciful.