from Evelyn Waugh, "The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers" in Georgian Stories (1926)
A public house in the slums. Adam leans against the settee and pays for innumerable pints of beer for armies of ragged men. Ernest is engrossed in a heated altercation about birth control with a beggar whom he has just defeated at "darts."
Another public house: Ernest, beset by two panders, is loudly maintaining the abnormality of his tastes. Adam finds a bottle of gin in his pocket and attempts to give it to a man; his wife interposes; eventually the bottle falls to the floor and is broken.
Adam and Ernest in a taxi; they drive from college to college, being refused admission. Fade out.
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i propose a literary gallimaufry, wherein we post the tastiest morsels of whatever we happen to be reading. the resulting stew shall make for a delicious feast, perhaps at times even deserving a 'food metaphor' label. no hurry to post-- only do so when you find something especially succulent (pun not intended with regards to the inaugural entry).
i propose a literary gallimaufry, wherein we post the tastiest morsels of whatever we happen to be reading. the resulting stew shall make for a delicious feast, perhaps at times even deserving a 'food metaphor' label. no hurry to post-- only do so when you find something especially succulent (pun not intended with regards to the inaugural entry).
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