name of sebastian’s teddy bear
Aloysius
why is the bear called aloysius
Saint Aloysius is the patron saint of youth
the langour of youth quote
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
EIAE at beginning of second year what happens to the bear
the toy bear, Aloysius, sat unregarded on the chest-of-drawers in Sebastian’s bedroom
context of sebastian and charles elongating their youth
they are the G.I. Generation, their youth was cut short by war and now they are reclaiming it
context: Waugh’s ‘Preface’ to the 1959 edition: “It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of
Waugh’s ‘Preface’ to the 1959 edition: “It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of 1944, the present cult of the English country house. It seemed then that the ancestral seats […] were doomed to decay
south america described as
the wild lands where
the wild lands where man had deserted his post and the jungle was creeping back to its old strongholds
SA: cities where
no road led
SA: gutted palaces and cloisters
embowered in weed, derelict churches were the vampire-bats hung in the dome like dry seed-pods
sa represents
atavism
