Hi, Thursday, January 27, 2005, 7:14:15 PM, John wrote:
> Ah, Boot. "Feather-footed through the plashy fen, treads the questing > vole." (If memory serves, forty years on). > For me the sublime moment in Scoop was the scene on the train where Boot > is swindled out of his gold sovereign. > Hilarious, but deeply sad. > I was reflecting that most efforts to film Waugh have been failures, and > then I remembered Brideshead. Didn't somebody do A Handful of Dust recently, and quite well? That, Scoop and the Sword of Honour books are my favourites. Have you read Boot's er, I mean Deedes's recent memoir At War with Waugh? It's brilliant. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405005734/qid=1106855489/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-3377011-4851801 -- Cheers, Bob
