contra mundum
“After Evelyn [Waugh]’s humiliating departure from Oxford, he returned home to Underhill. For a few happy weeks, he hung out with Alistair [Graham]. They wandered around greater London like Parisian flaneurs. But then Alistair departed fopr Kenya leaving Evelyn with nothing to look forward to save ‘heart-beaking dreariness’.”
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Mad World by Payla Byrne.
“If he wants to be always tight, why doesn’t he go to Kenya or somewhere where it doesn’t matter?”
“Why does it matter less being unhappy in Kenya than anywhere else?”
“Don’t pretend to be stupid, Charles. You understand perfectly.”