tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post5353499170995722620..comments2023-09-11T05:46:29.728-03:00Comments on Novel Readings: Recent ReadingRohan Maitzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-21651288109566423782009-01-30T10:59:00.000-04:002009-01-30T10:59:00.000-04:00I think the complexity of tone in Brideshead is be...I think the complexity of tone in Brideshead is because it is both a second world war novel, and a novel expressing a deep nostalgia for an earlier age that it recognizes has gone for ever. But underlying the romantic nostalgia is the deeper truth (for Waugh and eventually Charles Ryder) of Catholicism.<BR/>As for the "self-indulgent male awfulness", the legal metaphor of real estate does conveyJRussellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17282582946775301868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-28885870359112003282009-01-28T18:25:00.000-04:002009-01-28T18:25:00.000-04:00Hey, wait a minute. Sue Bridehead? Brideshead Revi...Hey, wait a minute. Sue <I>Bridehead</I>? <I>Brideshead</I> Revisited? JRussell, are you out there? Is something more deliberate going on with this connection than I realized?Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-71263733993115222412009-01-28T18:23:00.000-04:002009-01-28T18:23:00.000-04:00Hmmm. Well, that explains a lot...Of course, you k...Hmmm. Well, that explains a lot...<BR/><BR/>Of course, you know I meant "present company of fine intellectual blogging literature lovers excluded". :-)Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-64709438491068143892009-01-28T11:50:00.000-04:002009-01-28T11:50:00.000-04:00The answer to your starred question is "Yes." Inte...The answer to your starred question is "Yes." Intellectual men are, of course, fools.<BR/><BR/>So maybe <I>Zuleika Dobson</I> is exactly what you don't want.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com