September 2011
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“My news are the great news that all my children have at last disappeared to...”
– Evelyn Waugh in a 1954 letter to Nancy Mitford (From The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh)
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“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”
– Evelyn Waugh (via alive-alive-oh)
August 2011
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A Beautiful Letter: Evelyn Waugh to Ann Fleming,...
Combe Florey House
3 January, 1963
Dear Ann
I am very sorry to hear of your sister’s distressing death. [1] You must pray for her soul. This is best done by going to a chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. The most convenient for you is Westminster Cathedral; go up the far left aisle under the screen. Kneel. ...
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“Ironically for Grossman, The Magicians really is something of a rip-off, though...”
– Adult fantasy author Lev Grossman on his work, Harry Potter and Evelyn Waugh
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A profile of Stephen Tennant →
Despite privilege and an outward show of frivolity, the life of Stephen Tennant was hardly a glorious cycle of song, so marked was it by illness (physical in the first half, mental in the second).
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Brideshead Revisited/X-Men: First Class Picspam
penrose-stairs:
While watching X-Men: First Class, I was heavily reminded of the recent film of Brideshead Revisited. I took some caps from both films and ran them through Photoshop. Maybe I’ll redo some of them.
University of Oxford…
A palatial home…
Getting cozy and sipping wine…
An idyllic moment on the steps…
An intimate game of chess…
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alittlebitofperil asked: ahhh just found your blog, love it!! I adore this book, I always thought it needed more intenet love :D
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Captain Waugh & Captain Ryder
On his return from Crete [in 1924] he [Evelyn Waugh] <…> went back to the Commandos with a firm hope of being given his own company. But this did not happen. ‘I was told by my NCOs that Tim Porter was taken over D company,’ he wrote in his diary on Friday, 13 March 1942, in camp in Scotland.
I asked the Commanding Officer if this was true and he said it was. I asked to...
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Waugh noted in his diary the Horizon [the literary magazine launched by Cyril Connolly in 1940 to which Waugh contributed] was being run by ‘the rump of the left wing’. To Connolly in 1953, he wrote: ‘I always enjoyed the magazine & was grateful to you for printing my work in it, but there was an ugly accent — RAF pansy — which kept breaking in… That spoiled...
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“He [Brian Howard] was supposed to report on possible Nazi sympathizers [at his...”
– Brideshead Generation by Humphrey Carpenter
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“On each occasion [of minor military operations in Egypt] they [8 Commando unit...”
– Brideshead Generation by Humphrey Carpenter
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Sickly child
‘I have taken a great fancy to a young lady named Laura,’ he [Evelyn Waugh] wrote to Mary Lygon.
What is she like? Well, fair, very pretty, plays peggoty beautifully… She has rather a long thin nose and skin as thin as bromo and she is very thin and might be dying of consumption to look at her… and she is only 18 years old…
— Brideshead Generation by...
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“However, he [Evelyn Waugh] derived some amusement [during a failed expedition...”
– Brideshead Generation by Humphrey Carpenter
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Gentleman's personal gentleman
In 1951 Christopher Sykes happened to mention that his father had employed an Italian valet, whereupon Waugh was:
overcome by self-pity. ‘My father never had an Italian valet,’ he whimpered.
‘Well, my father never published any books, so we’re quits,’ I replied.
‘Anyone can publish books,’ he moaned, ‘but only the great ones of the earth can have Italian valets.’
— from Brideshead...
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highwindows asked: dat waugh, though.
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Building a Library: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn... →
samuelhernandez:
Brideshead Revisited only loses track of one pivotal character. Which is to say could be seen as an accomplishment in a book where so many of the characters are dysfunctional. Charles is at most times a quiet observer, watching the Brideshead household with keen interest but never thinking to…
