"Sebastian Flyte describes his family as ‘social lepers’."

[Brideshead]

“Sebastian Flyte describes his family as ‘social lepers’.”

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Mad World by Paula Byrne

Byrne is sometimes so annoyingly inaccurate when it comes to quoteng and interpreting Brideshead one could thing she really doesn’t know what she is investigating. This one quote is probably one of the best-known Brideshead quotes ever – the last part of it at least. How could one possibly get it wrong?

“He says he knows my father, which is impossible.”
“Why?”
“No one knows Papa. He’s a social leper. Hadn’t you heard?”
“It’s a pity neither of us can sing,” I said.

@темы: byrne, i spit on you

Comments

[tes3m]

И правда непонятно — как можно так цитировать?