If Musk continues down this road, Twitter won’t be a beacon of free speech, but a miasmic, malodorous swamp.

What follows is a miasmic journey through grief and identity, terror and uncertainty, that is finely and compellingly wrought.

Delicate, asymmetrical and suspiciously solitary, an orchid protrudes out of the miasmic fecundity of a jungle or rainforest like an alien probe.

Her writing has often revealed what was previously hidden, parsed what was unconscious, be it the miasmic unease of the late 1960s or the subterranean structures of national politics.

But few who know him professionally said they expected him to descend into the miasmic swamp of right-wing conspiracy theories.