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    <body><![CDATA[An appalling human being, to be sure--I think, given my OK but not complete knowledge of 20th-century Brit writing, that Waugh inaugurated the Total Bastard school of prose sensibility, later carried to great heights by Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and susequently the early Martin Amis in particular (eg Money, Dead Babies), though he now seems to have discovered the virtues of sincerity, to some detriment of his work. But my lord, Waugh is funny, and I think this is his funniest: our poor hero gets expelled from Oxford through no fault of his own, then ends up at a horrendous private school in Wales. Lots of funny stuff about lords, private-school kids, the filthy rich (followed to London in the sequel, Vile Bodies, also a not-that-prepossessing film), and a weird interest in vitalism, of all things. I would start with here and Scoop, were I granted the privilege of rediscovering Waugh.]]></body>
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