Evelyn Waugh and the Question of Inheritance

[@johnohara1433]

The dufus who introduced Alex Waugh is the personification of the self-infatuated academic. Absolutely painful to watch.

[@oc2538]

32:09 this story was delightful.

[@cavandavidson1185]

Alexander waugh gives a lovely talk.

[@debaly]

Great job! Wonderful to see and hear Mr Alexander Waugh and all those lovely quotes and stories. Thank you!

[@ginawiggles918]

Whatever the subject Alex Waugh is always fascinating. Enjoyed this presentation thoroughly.

[@MrMartibobs]

How bloody wonderful. Thank you so much, Mr Waugh.

[@danstewart8218]

Thank you for sharing - greatly enjoyed! 👍

[@aazogbi]

Very interesting to hear Mr. Alexander Waugh and learn about those letters. Thank you for posting.

[@josephcampagnolo157]

Very interesting information on Baby Jungman, and beautiful letters from Waugh. She seems like she was a callous person in her youth, but maybe she did Waugh a big favor in the end. As long as Betjeman is mentioned here, a little factoid: The poet JB brought a favorite companion, his teddy-bear, to Oxford as a student, an eccentricity which Waugh imparted to Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. When I find early copies of E. Waugh's novels with largely intact dust-jackets, I buy them. Otherwise, I like the Little, Brown hardbacks from around 1990. Of course, for the travel books you have to look elsewhere. I have to take a look at the Oxford editions.

[@jasonandlynnechambers3420]

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[@jpstenino]

This presentation is so very wonderful and grand.

[@Emil-Antonowsky]

00:10:50 if you want to skip the drivel.

[@tonykent59]

That is such an enjoyable, heartwarming and illuminating talk from Alexander Waugh. I am so glad to have watched it. It is so sad that he has recently passed from this world, and at an unconscionably young age. RIP Mr Waugh.

[@laurarennie7973]

Evelyn Wa!!

[@ABC_DEF]

Why can't Americans pronounce "Waugh" correctly? It's pronounced exactly the same as "war".

[@navik2815]

As I see “I am that I am” so often used in your discussions of Dee, DeVere, and the works of Shake-spheres, Sonnet 133 comes to mind, especially its couplet: “No, I am that I am, and they that level / At my abuses reckon up their own”. The mirror of the truth is lifted to the reader’s eyes, as are Iago’s words in Othello 1.1.63: “I am not what I am”. Imago declares, “Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty”. Perhaps, Othello is right when he says, “oh, honest Iago”, for he, too, is holding up a mirror in which truth gets exposed. But that’s not my main surprise: it came as I read the Author’s Note by your Grandfather Evelyn in Brideshead Revisited: “I am not I; thou art not he or she; they are not they”. This brilliant novel is indeed a mirror for truth, whether we like it or not. I’ll be pondering this one for a season!

[@canadian2menace]

What a delightful way to spend an hour on the computer! Many thanks to Georgetown for posting this. -Douglas Henderson

[@santiagoletelier5263]

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[@ivorytower99]

*As the late Comedian Joan Rivers would say, "Faw, faw, faw!"*

[@Pharoahonicdreams]

starts at 10:39 too many announcers..

[@ginawiggles918]

But once he got a chance to speak, pure gold.

[@squareleg5757]

Charming - thank you, Alexander. Now we know where your dogged pursuit of Truth stems from. Vero Nihil Verius.

[@mikewinston8709]

Erudite and urbane…🇬🇧

[@Elitist20]

Very charming, and his insights about EW are fascinating. But there's something of the nepo baby about him. And he was also Brexit Party candidate for Bridgwater & West Somerset - how far has British conservatism fallen!

[@elizabethbower2168]

Introduction far Too long… 10 minutes of listening to complacent Americans isn’t my idea of a good programme

[@georgegreig8054]

Joe Louis would have knocked fuck out of Waugh.