The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The End of Brideshead Revisited
The builders do not know the uses to which their work would descend. St. Augustine has no idea that there's this guy in the early 20th century who's going to be sitting on a hospital bed talking about him, right? They made a new house with the stones of the castle. Year by year, generation after generation, they enriched and extended it. The place was desolate and the work all brought to nothing. And yet I thought stepping out more briskly toward the camp where the bugles after pause had taken up the second call and were soundingPick him up, pick him up, hot potatoes.
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