Your analysis was so insightful and eloquent. For example, all that "low door in the wall" discussion - I hadn't considered it before. I wish I saw your video before my class discussed the book last spring! I can't believe how much you covered in twenty minutes. Christopher Hitchens wrote that “Waugh was not a mere propagandist, and we would not still be reading him if he had been.” Readers are free to reject Waugh’s religious interpretation, just as the novel’s characters are (though ultimately they don’t). Some including Orwell, accuse Waugh of having a childish worldview. The accusation of childishness may be correct. A child is simultaneously fully present in his time and yet capable of fully leaving it through imagination. Being truly present - free from regret, change, loss, and shame - are all things lost with experience and retrieved through grace. I was moved by your reading of Cordelia's prediction of Sebastian's future. It was utterly heartbreaking. It feels like it doesn't have to be that way, but it is. I just found your channel and I look forward to watching the other videos.
Your analysis was so insightful and eloquent. For example, all that "low door in the wall" discussion - I hadn't considered it before. I wish I saw your video before my class discussed the book last spring! I can't believe how much you covered in twenty minutes. Christopher Hitchens wrote that “Waugh was not a mere propagandist, and we would not still be reading him if he had been.” Readers are free to reject Waugh’s religious interpretation, just as the novel’s characters are (though ultimately they don’t). Some including Orwell, accuse Waugh of having a childish worldview. The accusation of childishness may be correct. A child is simultaneously fully present in his time and yet capable of fully leaving it through imagination. Being truly present - free from regret, change, loss, and shame - are all things lost with experience and retrieved through grace. I was moved by your reading of Cordelia's prediction of Sebastian's future. It was utterly heartbreaking. It feels like it doesn't have to be that way, but it is. I just found your channel and I look forward to watching the other videos.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful video! I’m planning on reading it soon. Thanks.
Thank you!