tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post5787898904604395243..comments2011-07-22T00:21:59.783-07:00Comments on The Evelyn Waugh Club: Open EnrollmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post-46424200893992330902010-08-19T15:31:53.998-07:002010-08-19T15:31:53.998-07:00I am a Canadian. I love Evelyn Waugh. I will prefa...I am a Canadian. I love Evelyn Waugh. I will preface my comments by saying that I am very common and that if Mr. Waugh were alive today, he wouldn't talk to me. In any case if I were to meet him, I would be so abashed that I would probably say something like, "Me like books heaps alot". He would sign my book and return it in an offhand dismissive manner. I would accept it with grateful thanks. I would say to myself that I still love Mr. Waugh's books in spite of everything. <br /><br />I discovered Mr. Waugh when I was going to university. I have read the majority of his books and I have read them in roughly chronological order. My favourites are Vile Bodies, Scoop (because I am Canadian & the Lord Beaverbrook connection fascinates me), of course Brideshead (also with its Canadian connection) and the Trilogy of the Sword. There is a character in the triology named Hooper which is my family name. A very unsympathetic character which Waugh draws as a vapid, empty everyman who moulded perfectly into the colourless egalitarian Britain of the 1950s. This I hold against Mr. Waugh. I wish he had chosen, say, Smith or Smythe. <br /><br />I find his later books sad and hard to read. I wish I could write like he wrote, but I can't and in any case, what's the point in this day and age. There are few people around who can really appreciate the genius of this style of writing.<br /><br />Nicolas Xavier Hooper<br /><br />Please accept this application into your club. Please get Mr. Waugh's grandson to provide a comment. I'm sure he will.Nicolas Xavier Hooperhttp://www.passemuraille.com/.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post-49616251639325363742010-08-08T20:15:10.921-07:002010-08-08T20:15:10.921-07:00In past several weeks have read books about E.M. F...In past several weeks have read books about E.M. Forster,Somerset Maugham Christopher Isherwood. Evelyn Waugh's name kept coming up so I read a biography. Wow!!!! I'm hooked. Watching now 1981 Brideshead movie. Spectacular!!!! Watched also Handful of Dust and Scoop. I'm addicted. Could an American southern Steel Magnolia get in the club? I visit England every year studied at Cambridge for four summers. My maiden name was Milton perhaps explains my love of all things English. Would you let Scarlet join???? Sorry if too wordy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11866821095907828898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post-85712988593045844752010-07-13T12:23:40.174-07:002010-07-13T12:23:40.174-07:00LOL is not a word!LOL is not a word!Shawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13305979011374973454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post-9874450115103344532010-07-13T02:55:16.674-07:002010-07-13T02:55:16.674-07:00Hi, so Mr. Dick there I don't know what he'...Hi, so Mr. Dick there I don't know what he's talking about but I know who Evelyn Waugh is because that's the name I totally check in under when I have to crib up at hotels which is like all the time. Also I don't want to talk about myself too much I mean actually I'm way shy. You should see me at press junkets -- I so hate talking about myself! LOL But what was I saying? Oh yes the point is I know who is this Evelyn Waugh lady and I think that plus me being famous should be enough to get me into your club. <br /><br />Hearts!<br />KellyKellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07486988013315351430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919236657999054782.post-5346091894587565292010-07-12T22:09:23.921-07:002010-07-12T22:09:23.921-07:00Esteemed Directours,
The present is to solicit in...Esteemed Directours,<br /><br />The present is to solicit inscription in the august scheme you are about to launch upon the world. <br /><br />I have no qualifications; rather I am spectacularly and even dazzlingly unpossessed of any quality that might recommend me to your society.<br /><br />I have never read any of Mr. Waugh's work. I did once, however, at a used book sale to benefit the local chapter of the AAUW, discover a somewhat tattered copy of <i>The Loved One.</i> The author's name stirred some vague souvenir and so (and because it was cheap) I obtained its purchase.<br /><br />I will read it someday. <br /><br />Yours, ever,<br />Richard "Dick" Dandelionrichard dandelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12668269272429810082noreply@blogger.com