I worked in a 50s style diner with era-appropriate songs on the jukebox and The Lion Sleeps Tonight always brings me back.
What.
No.
No no no.
The whole POINT of the feud is that it is based on nothing legitimate; the families are "both alike in dignity" so there's no power differential.
wtffffffffff
One of the great things about being an author with a big megaseries is it makes it a lot easier to spot the grift emails, because most of those are "I picked up [Book three of the second subseries] and I was blown away!" and no mention of, y'know, the rest of the series.
HOT TAKE: 1989's VALMONT is the far superior adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
What's been so fascinating about the Platner discourse is... the primary in Maine is TOMORROW and so much of it is acting like he's definitively the candidate and folks need to get in line.