I wonder, because of his comments about reciting Eliot though a megaphone, if, in 'Brideshead Revisited,' he was the character named Anthony Blanch? Would love to know this. Thanks. F.
Perhaps - But just look at his output. Reminds me of a story of a young piano player in training with his teacher at a concert by an older Artur Rubinstein...The young trainee mentioned at a break about a few wrong notes. His teacher replied 'Ah, Yes!!! But WHAT wrong notes."
Waugh, like Hemingway, was an extremely unpleasant man, both bullies for example. But there are plenty of great writers who weren't particularly nice men - Dickens and Proust, to name two. BUT they did write works of genius. Waugh and Hemingway, imo, did not. Good, but not in the genius class.
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Worth it, just to hear Sir Harold Acton speaking.
Sir Harold Acton. Delightful.
I wonder, because of his comments about reciting Eliot though a megaphone, if, in 'Brideshead Revisited,' he was the character named Anthony Blanch? Would love to know this. Thanks. F.
Yes, Harold Acton is known to have been the inspiration for Anthony Blanche in Brideshead
Imagine - reciting Edith Sitwell and TS Eliot through a megaphone!
Very interesting. Thank you!
With a plummy rummy voice like that I'd recite The Waste Land thru a megaphone too.
The original of Anthony Blanche, in Brideshead Revisisted.
Who?
Brian Howard was also a model for Anthony Blanche.
Thanks for this. I only just asked about this. MUCH appreciated... F.
Wasn't Anthony Blanch a person of color? And he had a stutter.
fascinating
E.W. Total alcoholic.
How do you write like that drunk?
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Perhaps - But just look at his output. Reminds me of a story of a young piano player in training with his teacher at a concert by an older Artur Rubinstein...The young trainee mentioned at a break about a few wrong notes. His teacher replied 'Ah, Yes!!! But WHAT wrong notes."
Waugh, like Hemingway, was an extremely unpleasant man, both bullies for example. But there are plenty of great writers who weren't particularly nice men - Dickens and Proust, to name two. BUT they did write works of genius. Waugh and Hemingway, imo, did not. Good, but not in the genius class.