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...those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The book denotes a haunting change since Max Beerbohm's glittering undergraduate duke, orator, wit, scholar and élégant set Zuleika Dobson and the Isis on fire, or even since Waugh's Lord Sebastian Flyte lugged his Teddy-bear to the barber...
Insane Orderliness. The most arresting figure in this tranquil scene was young Lord Sebastian Flyte. Hero Ryder, who had ground-floor rooms, met Sebastian somewhat unpropitiously one night. Amid the hubbub of strayed revellers he heard one voice say distinctly: "D'you know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment...
...year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...