Reviewing Alexander Waugh's recently published family chronicle, Fathers and Sons, Sir Harold Evans imagines that encountering the entire Waugh family at a single sitting would be like "stumbling into the house of Addams."
How very true. I reckon the male Waughs could be cast like so: Arthur Waugh as Gomez; Auberon Waugh as Pugsley; and Evelyn Waugh as a bizarre amalgam of both Wednesday and Uncle Fester.
Perhaps Cousin Itt might convert to Catholicism on his death bed?
Mind you, I suppose the Addams family image is a good analogy for any aristocratically pretentious social group of systematic antediluvian philosophy and appearance.
(Christopher Hitchens' review of the same book here)
A combination of Wednesday and Uncle Fester? She sounds like a keeper. And a looker, I daresay...
Posted by: Lindy | June 07, 2007 at 00:47
Evelyn was a he, Slim, albeit a former nancy boy. He wrote 'Bridehead Revisited', which is about nancy boys who find solace in Papish devotion; and also a number of good, funny books in his younger days. George Orwell described his writings as, "about as good as one can be," said George Orwell, "while holding untenable opinions"
Posted by: stephenesque | June 07, 2007 at 09:01
*dunces self*
Erm, yes, something to be said for paying closer attention...
Posted by: Lindy | June 08, 2007 at 01:12
... but there is something to be said for crossing the Atlantic in a storm without getting sea-sick. But there was much turbulence in Charles' behavior as it was..
Posted by: rannva | June 08, 2007 at 02:25