The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Secret Life of Aeneas and Augustine
Charles is a complete cipher. He just takes his personality from other people, right? You can kind of tell that if you kind of are tuned to like early 20th century decor. Charles doesn't go around murdering people. He just abandons his wife and children. So again, we have, so one way of reading the mother situation is again, the Sataniness of them. And then you have this absent mother in Sanigustan where it's not actually absent through her own sort of choosing. It's the fact that Sanigusta keeps moving on,. So he's absent from her himself.
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