#like waugh and i are fundamentally philosophically incompatible
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i eat banana nom nom nom
#m.txt#this post was supposed to be about brideshead revisited but i opened the post up and all my words left me#but like. there's something about how VIVID brideshead revisited is how its scenes WILL haunt you#like obviously there's the famous drive + picnic scene which is so loaded with emotion and youth#and also the idea that you will always lose that youth#but also i was thinking about the fancy ship bc in my mind that's very similar#and it's like. it's a novel that just BREATHES life#and the fact that its messaging being along the lines of 'enjoying yourself bad you must suffer for god'#is like. so HARD for me.#bc on the one hand obviously there's a skill in the way that it sinks you into these vivid descriptions#and then shows you how everything breaks down#like it's about aging + what it's like to have to live in the world and the way that beauty cannot last#and so the like anger i feel at having these beautiful Romantic scenes stolen from me is the point#but ALSO the moralizing is fucking STUPID#like waugh and i are fundamentally philosophically incompatible#and i don't know how to dismiss the catholicism without sounding like i don't also understand the function of the turn#where the romanticism fades and sebastian ends up where he ends up#like. i get that I GET THAT but is it really possible to separate that out from waugh's explicitly proselytizing mission#or is the fall of the romanticism inextricably linked to the anti-hedonism sentiment of no pleasure only God etc etc#(there's another separate question that is to what extent does waugh succeed at undercutting the beauty#given that that is still a major facet and a major draw of the book. but that's a separate question.)#anyway. i eat banana nom nom nom#brideshead revisited
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