farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
> I don't think that you read too closely either the novel or my post.
> In the case of the novel, the conversion to Catholicism did not come
> until the end. In the first chapters of the novel, the hijinks of
> Sebastien Flyte and his friends are depicted, which were not too
> different from those of the late count and his friends at Oxford. In
> any case, the count and his friends would not have actually had to read
> the book, when they could have watched the television production that
> was first broadcast in Britain in the early 1980s. And the TV
> production certainly depicted in some detail the antics of Sebastien
> and his friends at Oxford. BTW the script for the television
> production was written by the noted British barrister and writer, John
> Mortimer.
>
> Jim F.
>
> -- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 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
>>> ...
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