dear-sebastian: “ I’m not sure if doodling Anthony Blanche while waiting for an appointment with my advisor will ever be counted as one of my prouder moments. ”
Thank you; why do you think so?
For the sake of accuracy as it relates to social positions of the characters, “Boy” Mulcaster is a Viscount (presumably) by courtesy, and (presumably, again) is the heir apparent to some higher title like Earl or Marquess.
Hi, I'm writing an essay which addresses the idea that "the search for truth is never straightforward, not simple.", and I was wondering if you had any ideas how Waugh treated the pursuit of knowledge in Brideshead Revisited? Thank you!
This would depend on whether you view his pursuit for _the_ truth (faith) as a success or as a failure.
If the former, you can follow his biography as a Catholic as reflected in his writing; if the latter, you can take note to his biography as a person as opposed to his writing, too.
Welcome back!
Thank you very much!
I am extremely sorry for my long absence. Sadly, this is bound to happen again, but I will try to make a new bout of absence shorter.
Apart from the passage on religion 'these quaint observances expressed a coherent philosophic system..', the passage about the Burgundy, JUlia's remarks about Mrs Muspratt, and the much longer passage about memory 'the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime' , what are the significant alterations between 1st and revised editions? .
There seem to be only minor differences, but the truth is, I never tried comparing them line-by-line. I will look up if there is a research anythere and post if I find it. Thank you!
have you ever heard the audio recording of john gielgud reading br? Its hands down one of my favorite audio book recordings. Its not complete, its from a sample of Sir John G's book readings including Brideshead Revisited a Tale of Two Cities Rise and Fall, and Dicken's Bleak House. I actually spent some time tracking cassette's down and now have them ready to transfer to digital recordings.
I do have the cassettes, but we never got down to digitalizing them, which is a shame, I know.
Sir John is brilliant at everything he does, but to me his way of phrasing it is further from what I hear inside my head than Jeremy Irons audiobook. Probably because to me he focuses too much on the characters and psychologies, which is really hardly the point.
I lately took up and re-read after many years H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine…. At the end of the volume, the first edition, were sixteen pages of advertisement of the popular novelists of 1895, all eulogized by reputable papers with an extravagance seldom accorded to me in my professional life; all, today, quite forgotten. It seemed I had taken a little hop in the Time Machine and had seen displayed before me the futility of contemporary esteem.
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