{"id":7967,"date":"2008-04-15T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2015-05-03T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T13:53:29","slug":"the-most-ill-natured-interview-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7967","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Waugh: \u201cThe Most Ill-Natured Interview Ever\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

… available at last. Marvelous!!<\/a><\/p>\n

One quote of many:<\/p>\n

I clearly can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t make myself understood. There is no such thing as a man in the street. There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is asked what faults he would excuse in others. He replies:<\/p>\n

“Drunkenness.” Any others? “Em [long pause] … anger. Lust. Dishonouring their father and mother. Coveting their neighbour’s ox, ass, wife. Killing. I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshipping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I ADORE him. I still count reading Scoop<\/a>\"\" as one of the funnest (and funniest) reading experiences I have ever had. I remember sitting on the bus, going home, surrounded by people, and I started snorting, tears of laughter streaming – yes, streaming! – down my face, and I could no longer see the page and had to put the book down for a bit, to just guffaw like a maniac, all by myself.<\/p>\n

From Baroque in Hackney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Evelyn Waugh, here is Ted’s review of Bright Young Things<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n