[lbo-talk] obit of the week

[C. G. Estabrook]

It sounds as though the count didn't need any inspiration from Waugh, 
who would not I think be on his reading list.  Brideshead is in fact an 
account of a conversion to Catholicism.  --CGE

Jim Farmelant wrote:
> As I recall the antics of the late Count von Bismarck and 
> his friends at Oxford back in the early 1980s were often
> compared to those described by Evelyn Waugh in his
> novels, Decline and Fall, and his Brideshead Revisted.
> And since that was the period that the television production
> of Brideshead Revisited was first broadcast, the antics
> of the late count and his friends were probably more or less directly
> inspired by Waugh.
> 
> Jim F.
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:21:54 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> writes:
>> [Meant to send this out the other day, after Gawker wrote it up...]
>>
>> Telegraph (London) - July 7, 2007
>> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/ 
>>
>> news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml>
>>
>> Count Gottfried von Bismarck
>>  ...