#57: Brideshead Revisited chapter 8

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🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 79 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 7.

Topics include:

Getting to know Julia
Rex's ignorance
Why Charles is attracted to Julia
"Modern" education
Perspective and Waugh
and more...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the SIRC Institute Podcast Network.
0:08.9	I'm David Kern, and as always, I am joined by three people who also return to London in the spring of 1926 for the general strike.
0:16.2	Angelina Stanford, Tim McIntosh, and our guest, Andrew Kern. How's it going?
0:23.1	It's not going well for Andrew.
0:24.7	He just coughed to start to go.
0:26.4	And it was really hard for me to make it today with the strike and all.
0:29.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:30.1	Well, I mean, you had almost 100 years, Angelina.
0:32.9	And it took every second.
0:36.3	So, uh, so how's it going?
0:39.0	I mean, we were just talking about the weather and ticks and being sick, but otherwise,
0:43.1	how's it going?
0:46.7	It's going to be there than it was.
0:48.8	I'll say that.
0:49.6	It's going a lot better.
0:50.7	Angelina, do you want to describe to our audience the sort of malady that you were suffering during the last week?
0:56.1	No. Why would I be that person?
1:00.1	You're asking me to turn into my 80-year-old grandmother.
1:02.7	I had a little procedure last week. It's fine.
1:05.8	Would you mind taking a look at it?
1:08.0	Would you mind taking a look at it?
1:09.9	I can't see it from where I'm sitting.
	...

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