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He is content to address what he calls “a self-selected audience of intellectually upscale readers,” and if you don’t know what he means by “Pecksniffian Comstockery,” tant pis.

As for those who are not vaccinated, well, tant pis.

He also famously juggled a wife and two mistresses, but, as the French say, “tant pis” — never mind.

If I am not mistaken, that elegiac note is often accompanied by a certain condescension: If a bunch of Bennington coeds and homosexuals have to give up and go get real jobs, tant pis!

“Tant pis, the ceiling is a little low. One brisk hornpipe and we’d all be bashed stupid.”