#53: Brideshead Revisited Chapters 1-2

Close Reads Podcast

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🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David kick off their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on the prologue and chapters one and two.

Topics include:

First experiences with Waugh
Waugh's nostalgia
The prologue
The book's various juxtapositions
The sacred and the profane
The book's spiritual hauntings
3 key decaying institutions
and more...

This episode is brought to by our friends at Roman Roads Media, purveyors of the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan.

It's also brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reeds on the SIRC Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.5	I'm David Kern, and as always, I am joined by Tim McIntosh and Angelina Stanford.
0:14.6	Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.
0:17.6	I'm joined by Angelina McIntosh.
0:22.5	Tim Stanford. I don't't know we'll mix it up
0:23.6	That way you both get Todd billing
0:26.4	McSanford
0:27.3	Exactly
0:28.3	Anja Tim McSanford
0:30.0	How's it going y'all
0:32.6	It's going good
0:34.5	Should I stop and run and get my teddy bear
0:36.3	For this episode
0:37.0	To establish It's going good. Should I stop and run and get my teddy bear for this episode?
0:43.9	To establish a drop. Well, he might have something to say.
0:45.8	Like, I think I just, I think that's going to become my device for this series of episodes.
0:50.6	Like, anytime you'll ask me something that makes me uncomfortable, I'm just going to be like, well, Aloysius says that was a very rude to ask me that.
0:57.6	Yeah, we could pose aloysius, the teddy bear is sort of like, you know, is our alter ego
1:03.9	that says things that, you know, we would rather not say in our own voice.
1:09.4	So your, so your bears really are pompous then, is what you're getting at.
1:14.4	Yeah, right.
1:16.1	But are you allowed to have a bear called Aloysius?
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