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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Brideshead Revisited
All right, I have no idea why there hasn't been a thread yet, but there is now.
1) Have you read it? 2) What do you think of it? (NOTE: If the answer to #1 is "No", then do so post-haste! ![]()
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Quote:
I like this quote: Quote:
How to watch Evelyn Waugh. Though this doesn't sound promising: Quote:
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Are you going to see the movie?
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Not sure- the TV adaptation was so good that I'd hate to spoil the memory.
Sorry, it's been so long since I read it that I don't think I could even discuss it now- plus I'd get the book and the series mixed up. But if you want to start, it might prod something loose.. I do remember Waugh saying later that if he'd written it again, he wouldn't have put the death-bed acceptance of the Last Rites in, though I don't see why not- I'm sure a lot of people who have doubts might change their mind at the last minute.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
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Don't. It's crap. So wrong on so many levels.
The miniseries, on the other hand, is superb. And not in the standard "true to the book but poor production and sub-par acting" way of BBC miniseries, but just all around spectacular. I loaned mine to my brother, and I was annoyed that I had done so; I needed something to purge my system after watching the movie. ![]() I'm rather surprised you and I are the only one's who've read it. This being a fairly literary crowd with a certain level of anglophilia floating around, and Brideshead being a well-known English novel, I'd have thought the two would have connected.
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How exactly would you characterise the homoerotic element to the relationship between Charles and Sebastian? Subconscious? Conscious, but chaste? Chaste and homosexual? Unrequited?
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