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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA quote from Brideshead Revisited that describes Trump perfectly
"He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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A quote from Brideshead Revisited that describes Trump perfectly (Original Post)
edhopper
Oct 2016
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)1. Perfect.
canetoad
(17,184 posts)2. Great book
Good and appropriate quote.
Do ya know who was being described? Too many years since I read it.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)3. Julia's Canadian businessman husband
canetoad
(17,184 posts)4. Thank you.
It's worth a re-read sometime soon. Waugh's precision of language gives me a thrill.