#58: Brideshead Revisited Chapter 9

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 88 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 9.

Topics include:

The interesting structure of the chapter
Celia's infedelity
Much more on perspective
The metaphor of the storm
Characters repeating patterns
Whether this first chapter where anything actually happens
and much more...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.
0:08.9	I'm David Kern, and as always on Close Reeds, I am joined by two people who also stand about looking distinguished and as martyrs for the arts.
0:17.3	How's it going?
0:18.5	Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.
0:21.6	That's the best introduction I've ever gotten.
0:24.7	Well, maybe we should say that Tim stands around looking distinguished and Angelina looks
0:27.9	like a martyr for the arts or maybe it's vice versa. I don't know.
0:30.2	I think, no. I don't, I don't know which of us gets which.
0:34.2	I want to name it and claim it.
0:37.4	I want to be the martyr.
0:39.3	The martyr?
0:39.7	I would like to be the martyr, but I would still not like to lose my fashion sense.
0:47.4	That sounds like something that what's his name would say from the book.
0:51.3	Sebastian?
0:52.5	No.
0:53.3	The other one, Anthony.
0:55.1	Oh, Anthony Blanched.
0:56.5	You're going to have to own that statement a little more.
0:59.4	You're going to have to put them as well as a statement if you want Anthony to sell it.
1:03.6	I would love to be a martyr.
1:05.4	So.
1:05.7	I don't know if it's my fashion sentence.
	...

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