Day One Hundred and Nineteen
Waugh Abroad Page: 1000
Today’s post will be more interesting than usual. I give you Evelyn Waugh.
Referring to shorts: “…the craven preference for comfort over dignity.”
While on board ship: “I got through two books a day…”
On an mid 19th century shipping incident: “It is wrong to represent bureaucracy as an evil contrived soley by socialists. It is one of the evidences of original sin.”
On revolutions: “Unremitting effort is needed to keep men living together at peace.”
On the barrenness of Marxism: “Altruism does not long flourish without religion.”
On why the splendor of the churches in Mexico is not wrong: “For the impulse to adorn is a part of love, and those who see in the glories of Mexican decoration only the self-advertisement of a clerical caste and the oppression of a people, do not know love.”