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.

posted by Cooper Renner in books, fiction, literature 

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2 Responses to “Another excerpt”

  1. Sheila Ryan on April 11th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    ” [T]he hideous lights of home” — SOS!

  2. Deron Bauman on April 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    at the end of that gay journey

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