#54: Brideshead Revisited Chapter 5
Close Reads Podcast
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🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 5.
Topics include:
- Charles' father
- Sebastian's malaise
- The fate of young men during the era
- Religion at Brideshead
- More on the aesthetic theology of the book
- and more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Rees on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.6 | I am David Kern, and as always on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh, |
| 0:15.8 | who I presume are not smoldering in the corner of the quad like the leaves outside of Charles' bedroom. |
| 0:22.2 | Whoa. |
| 0:23.5 | That was... |
| 0:24.4 | Or maybe you are. |
| 0:26.4 | Haunting and... |
| 0:28.0 | Evocative. |
| 0:32.0 | I wish I was smoldering like the leaves outside of Charles. |
| 0:35.7 | I would totally go for that. |
| 0:39.1 | You know, it's funny is yesterday. I was smoldering like the leaves outside of Charles I would totally go for that you know it's funny is yesterday I was smoldering like the leaves outside the quad and then I had to kind of like go to the gym so I had to |
| 0:49.1 | stop but I was yesterday I'm just not right now oh okay all right yeah All right. Yeah. All right. Well, that makes sense. I like that smoldering. |
| 0:57.8 | What did you say? Evocative and what? |
| 1:01.6 | I can't even remember. Haunting and evocative. |
| 1:04.0 | Haunting and evocative. |
| 1:05.3 | Kind of like this chapter we're about to talk about. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, that's a perfect description of chapter five. |
| 1:10.8 | So, yeah, we are going to talk just about chapter five for a couple of reasons. One, |
| 1:15.3 | because we are actually only recording two days after our last recording date. And secondly, |
| 1:22.2 | just because it's a long chapter. But I think what we're going to be doing is probably focusing |
| 1:26.1 | on just a chapter at a time, the rest of the way through this book, to give ourselves some room to burrow deeply. |
| 1:33.6 | We don't want to bite off more than we can chew either time-wise, schedule-wise, but also just we want to be able to give the book, you know, each chapter, it's due attention. |
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