#56: Brideshead Revisited Chapter 6

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, David, and a special guest continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 6.

Topics include:

The greatest sentence of the 20th century
What's wrong with Sebastian
Whether Sebastian's family is being fair
More on the aesthetic theology of the book
and much, much more...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.3	I'm David Kern and as always on Close Reeds, I am joined by the inimitable Angiotim, Angelina
0:15.9	Stanford and Tim McIntosh, who do appreciate the Burgundy, I assume.
0:20.7	How's it going to both of you?
0:23.0	Great.
0:24.0	Good, yeah.
0:25.1	Tim.
0:25.8	David, how are you doing?
0:27.4	I'm snowed under, but I'm good.
0:28.5	How is Aruba?
0:29.7	Speaking of snowed under?
0:31.0	No, no, no.
0:31.6	Aruba doesn't happen until mid-August.
0:34.2	Oh, what?
0:34.8	You're a vacation.
0:36.1	Tees is what you are, Tim.
0:38.3	No, I...
0:39.3	I...
0:40.3	I've been imagining you on the beach with drinks with umbrellas.
0:45.2	Trust me. I have been imagining the same thing.
0:49.8	Okay, well, so how was your...
0:52.3	You have funned me through this week, but am I imagine that at least one of us was having a good time.
	...

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