April 11, 2008
Another excerpt
“Oh, why did nobody warn me?” cried Grimes in his agony. “I should have been told. They should have told me in so many words. They should have warned me about Flossie, not about the fires of hell. I’ve risked them, and I don’t mind risking them again, but they should have warned me about marriage. They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.”
(Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, 1928: p. 133, Back Bay edition 1999)
PS: I finished the book this morning. It’s a goodun.
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” [T]he hideous lights of home” — SOS!
at the end of that gay journey