#a young artist? probably champion of lusting after vautrin Charles the Painter

[lafcadiosadventures]

propaganda:

“The diorama, a recent invention, which carried an optical illusion a degree further than panoramas, had given rise to a mania among art students for ending every word with rama. The Maison Vauquer had caught the infection from a young artist among the boarders.”

Old Man Goriot, Honoré de Balzac, tr. Ellen Marriage

I have no evidence that “scope” ever became a meme in that way, but given the wide array of scope ending objects, why not (thanks @sainteverge ^_^)