Blasphemy for the love of eve

[calbert at tiac.net]

On 4 Jan 00, at 23:36, jporter wrote:

> JBF:
> 
> >"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for
> >dear life on a sinking ship."  -- Edmund Wilson on Evelyn Waugh
> 
> EW on EW?  I guess that ship's goin' down.

Just as I am gearing up with Vile Bodies... Waugh's comedies 
don't wear terribly well (men at arms an apparent exception), but 
the man had a way with a phrase, to wit:

(a british customs inspector is vetting the  auto-bio of one Adam 
Fenwick Symes) -

"The chief was at this time engrossed in Adam's memoirs, giving 
vent at intervals to a sinister chuckling sound that was partly 
triumphant and partly derisive, but in the main genuinely 
appreciative."

His elaborations on the residents of Boot Hall in SCOOP are not to 
be missed.


love,
cfa