It's alarming that one of the most 4chan-coded writers--catholic, satirical, racist--who happened to wield a terrifically elegant pen, never gets a mention on this board. Is it because this is a community of unlettered poseurs, perhaps?
>>25180308Why’d you post the pic of him when he was old and fat instead of when he was young and gay. He was such a handsome aristocratic-looking ephebe. Anyway people talk about Brideshead Revisited on here a lot
rant: 'why isn't this guy mentioned more' is such a lame way to start a thread. if you have something to say about him, say that or say nothing. don't complain that *other* people aren't saying interesting things. sorry for the rant.anyway, i'm far from a chud, but i like my English reactionaries, Waugh included. Wyndham Lewis, though, i would recommend to any anon before Waugh, unless it's specifically the weary catholic melancholy you're after. Lewis is more imaginative, has a sharper sense for the grotesque; his eye roves further across society and bores deeper into it; his energies are directed towards the future instead of the quaint lost past. and you get all the high-society aristocratic freaks you get in Waugh - they're just described as malfunctioning automatons instead of wayward souls. Lewis too is animated by sense of massive resentful rage at being the Odd Man Out, as opposed to slick society-man Evelyn who seems to be wryly chuckling at England from deep within it. i suppose it's a matter of taste, but Lewis is way more my thing.if you want to start with Waugh, i recommend Men at Arms. with Lewis, The Revenge for Love.
