Friday 25 May 2018

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited


Toffs face love and loss between the wars.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.


I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.


He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

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