youth Flashcards

1
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name of sebastian’s teddy bear

A

Aloysius

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2
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why is the bear called aloysius

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Saint Aloysius is the patron saint of youth

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3
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the langour of youth quote

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The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

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4
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EIAE at beginning of second year what happens to the bear

A

the toy bear, Aloysius, sat unregarded on the chest-of-drawers in Sebastian’s bedroom

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5
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context of sebastian and charles elongating their youth

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they are the G.I. Generation, their youth was cut short by war and now they are reclaiming it

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6
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context: Waugh’s ‘Preface’ to the 1959 edition: “It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of

A

Waugh’s ‘Preface’ to the 1959 edition: “It was impossible to foresee, in the spring of 1944, the present cult of the English country house. It seemed then that the ancestral seats […] were doomed to decay

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7
Q

south america described as

the wild lands where

A

the wild lands where man had deserted his post and the jungle was creeping back to its old strongholds

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8
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SA: cities where

A

no road led

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9
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SA: gutted palaces and cloisters

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embowered in weed, derelict churches were the vampire-bats hung in the dome like dry seed-pods

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10
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sa represents

A

atavism

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