November 2011
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My life as a Waugh →
Peter Waugh’s father was Alec, Evelyn Waugh’s elder brother. He tells Patrick Barkham about the father whose love he couldn’t accept – and the uncle who scared him
The terrified boy fell in love with his Aunt Laura. “I thought Evelyn Waugh was an ogre and I was going to rescue her,” he says. “I did see him being very funny, but Evelyn was cruel. My sister...
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Not about Mr Waugh
I am sorry to go offtopic, but this is where Edward and I live. And soon there may not be a place for the like of us anymore.
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Dear friend, I just added my voice to this urgent appeal, standing for human rights in Russia and all over the world. Medvedev and Putin’s party is pushing a law to vote this week that would make any mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual or...
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maresalsalis:
fyodorpavlov replied to your post: http://bridesheadrevisited.thecomicseries.com it…
Awesome. Sauce.
It will motivate me to try and actually draw worthwhile things. Also it allows me to channel my fanaticism in productive ways.
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I knew I would become this.
Frasier: You do know that Star Trek is just a television show.
Noel: So was Brideshead Revisited.
Frasier: I know you're upset, so I'm going to forget you said that.
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“You know that slang is almost part of my nature. I shall, however, set myself to...”
– Thomas Merton, to Evelyn Waugh, September 17, 1949
(The Courage For Truth: Letters to Writers)
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From Auberon Waugh's authobiography 'Will This Do"
Chapter 13 of AW’s autobiography is almost entirely dedicated to his mother Laura.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Combe Florey 1971-1973
Another reason for the move to Combe Florey was that my mother had been living alone there since her husband’s sudden death in April 1966, and although she never complained of loneliness, and was visited quite often by her children, one had the impression that...
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You said you'd lend me anything: I WANT TO KILL... →
dreamyfarofflook:
[…] My mom just called to check in. She said that at dinner tonight at Aunt Gin’s, my mom was telling her about how things are going. She was telling her about how my thesis was going, pointing out that at first I was going to write about feminism, then when I wrote about Brideshead Revisited in Oxford, I decided to go in that direction instead.
Do you know what Aunt...
