The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Memory of Virgil
Virgil of St. Lachthar Mai Raya: These are the tears of things. Just remembering things is constantly sort of the clue to unlock everything that's going on, right? Like for example there's a scene where Aeneas is laughing when they've settled down in Italy and they don't have any silverware or anything like that to eat their food. They're making sort of pizzas or whatever you want to consider as early versions of flatbread dishes. And so then the son, Aeneas remembers that there was this prophecy that they were going to like get so hungry they wereGoing to eat their plates. He's like, well wait a second,
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