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The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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The Conversion of St. Augustine

There's a wonderful correspondence between the Aniad and Brideshead visited when Charles goes back to find Sebastian drunk in Africa with his new lover Kurt. We have other correspondences with the sun, Eskanias, or also called Ullis. And then of course there's Adi Adatas, which is a little different of a relationship because Augustine actually did love that relationship. He has this moment of conversion, hearing something that is eerily similar to what St. Augustine heard that converted him.

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