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Brideshead Revisited - BR Castle Flashcards

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A multitude…

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Of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds […] a conjuror’s name of such ancient power […] the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight.

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Exquisite…

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Manmade landscape […] a sequestered place, enclosed and embraced […] the ground led, still unravished , to the neighbourly horizon

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Vast,twin…

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Fireplaces of sculptured marble, the coved ceiling frescoed […] gilt mirrors and scagliola pilasters

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The windows were…

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Opened to the stars and the scented air, to the indigo and silver, moonlit landscape of the valley

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I, at any rate,

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Believed myself very near heaven, during those languid days at Brideshead

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I felt a whole…

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New system of nerves alive within me, as though the water that spurted and bubbled among its stones, was indeed a life giving spring

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I abominate…

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The English countryside. I suppose it is a disgraceful thing to inherit great responsibilities and to be entirely indifferent to them

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You find me in…

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Solitary possession […] and indeed he seemed to possess the hall […] to possess the caryatids […] to possess me

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That enchanted palace

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Vs.

After a long captivity in the sunless coral palaces

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Here, where…

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Wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity

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The sun had sunk […]

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The lakes below us were aflame; the light grew in strength and splendour as it neared death, drawing long shadows

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This is Rex’s…

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House at the moment, so far as it’s anybody’s

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Need I reproach myself if…

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Sometimes I was taken by the vision?

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Brideshead offers…

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Charles a chance to relive a more meaningful childhood - David Rothstein

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I grew younger…

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daily with each adult habit I acquired […] a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood […] its naughtiness high in the catalogue of grave sins

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There was something of…

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Nursery freshness about us that fell short of the joy of innocence

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Lord M flies the flag that:

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Had not flown for twenty-five years

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The chapel…

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Showed no ill-effects of its long neglect

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It was an aesthetic…

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Education to live within those walls

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The Soanesque library […]

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Mandarins, painted paper and Chippendale fretwork

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I began to mourn […]

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The loss of something I had known in the drawing room of Marchmain house […] in a word, the inspiration

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My work…

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Had nothing to recommend it except my growing technical skill

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Charles’ outlook on his older self:

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“Disillusion”
“entirely indifferent”
“Nothing more than acquiescence”

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We would leave…

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The golden candle light of the dining room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks

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For nearly ten dead years […]

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Never during that time, except sometimes during my painting […] did I come alive as I had been during the time of my friendship with Sebastian. I took it to be youth, not life that I was losing

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Description of the chapel:

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Interior had been elaborately furnished in the arts-and-crafts style of the last decade […] angels in printed cotton smocks […] altar had a carpet of grass-green, strewed with white and gold daisies

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They’ve closed the chapel…

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At Brideshead. Mummy’s requiem was the last mass said there […] and suddenly there wasn’t any chapel there anymore, just an oddly decorated room. Quomodo sedet sola civitas.

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A small red flame […]

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which the olds knights saw from their tombs, that flame burns again for other soldiers […] I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones

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Waugh MGM memo

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The physical dissolution of the house of Brideshead has in fact been a spiritual regeneration

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I they walk around the lake…

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They have to make bets about how many swans they see

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Young conservatives […]

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A socialist from the coal mines […] a financier older than the rest

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“Two architectural features…

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Are used in the story to typify the conflicting characteristics of the English aristocratic tradition” - MGM memo

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“The text represents modernity […]

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Invading a tradition of memory protected within the Catholic enclave at Brideshead” - David Rothstein

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“The paradise lost […]

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Is more compelling than the paradise regained” - Valerie Kennedy

What Charles has lost (a chance at aristocracy) is more compelling than his conversion

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