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...other is the irresponsible satirist who makes indiscriminate fun of actions and attitudes, and shows no solid body of ideas behind his humor. Evelyn Waugh is an unhappy example of this second species...
...Waugh is a man of great talent: his mastery of the purely technical aspects of writing is alone sufficient proof of this. But, with one exception, his books have been mere exuberant spoofery...
...Waugh gave evidence in his one great book "Brideshead Revisited" that he did have a brain underneath that fun-and-games exterior. It was a serious study, streaked through with a deeper humor, of much the same sort of people he had had such fun with in his earlier books. Waugh had come of age, one tought...
Good for Mr. Waugh. I would like to have said this myself, not the Waugh of course but the equivalent Faulkner. One reason I did not is, the man who wrote some of the pieces in Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and some of the African stuff (and some-most-of all the rest of it too for that matter) does not need defending, because the ones who throw the spitballs didn't write the pieces in Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and the African pieces and the rest...
Neither does Mr. Waugh need this from me. But I hope he will accept me on his side...