tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post5054430334929380302..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Brideshead Revisited, RevisitedJonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-39307527129716417842008-06-26T16:36:00.000-05:002008-06-26T16:36:00.000-05:00What is wrong with Hollywood? Seriously. It's a ba...What is wrong with Hollywood? Seriously. It's a bad joke. <BR/><BR/>But anyway, I loved the 1981 Brideshead Revisited. Soon after, I went to Oxford for a summer school course and was housed in the Meadow Building at Christ Church, where Sebastian had his rooms in the novel. The thrill of my young life. But regretfully, no one ever read "The Wasteland" off a balcony with a megaphone while I was there.<BR/><BR/>I also loved another series from the same period--The Jewel in the Crown. Also an excellent adaptation and, like Brideshead, a complete fictional world to sink into.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-76960683182175607522008-06-24T12:06:00.000-05:002008-06-24T12:06:00.000-05:00Your favorite sentence is a bit ornate for my tast...Your favorite sentence is a bit ornate for my taste (Wikipedia reports that Waugh himself later decried the book's "rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful"), but I can recall few passages that hit me harder than the following, at the end of Hooper's description of Brideshead to Ryder:<BR/><BR/> [Hooper:] " . . . You never saw such a thing."<BR/> "Yes, Hooper, I did. I've been here before."<BR/> The words seemed to ring back to me enriched from the vaults of my dungeon. [I could do without that rhetorical ornament, actually. But here comes the punch to the gut.]<BR/> "Oh well, you know all about it. I'll go and get cleaned up."<BR/> I had been there before. I knew all about it.<BR/><BR/>Man oh man!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05923160721288694327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-18241951389930978002008-06-23T14:00:00.000-05:002008-06-23T14:00:00.000-05:00Here love had died between me and Miramax.Here love had died between me and Miramax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com