babydisambiguatordostoevsky nails an archetype here, and it makes me realize that “modernity” has been going on for a very long time
Antip Burkovsky, the young grifter: “…his face had, if one may so express it, an air of innocent insolence... there was not a trace of irony or introspection in his face, nothing but a complete blank conviction of his own rights and, at the same time, something like a strange and incessant craving to be and feel insulted.”