Every few months I post this Evelyn Waugh quote

[edhopper]

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because it describes Trump so well;

He simply wasn’t all there. He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed: something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was whole.

"Brideshead Revisted"

[1cheapbeemr]

1. Wow, that is good.

[BadGimp]

2. scary good in fact

[edhopper]

3. Waugh was an

amazing writer.

[herding cats]

4. That is amazingly accurate.

I'm going to borrow that from you and share it with others. Thank you!

[edhopper]

5. Not mine

it's Waugh's and open to share. Please do.

[herding cats]

10. I still thank you for sharing it here.

I'll be reading Waugh. I adore this older style of prose.

[ornotna]

6. Great quote

Does it actually refer to tRump?

[edhopper]

13. No

t's from Brideshead revisted.

[Ananda62]

7. Where is this quote from?

It’s really good!

[edhopper]

8. Brideshead revistied

thanks for asking, I will amend my OP.

[PatSeg]

9. Yes, that is perfect

Maybe he wasn't "gestated" long enough?

[gratuitous]

11. Or F. Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

[smirkymonkey]

12. Great quote. Thanks for posting.

Who was it referring to? Sebastian Flyte?

[edhopper]

15. Rex

[smirkymonkey]

16. Oh,yes.

That makes much more sense.

[edhopper]

17. I believe it is

Julia's description to Charles.

[smirkymonkey]

20. At first I had thought it referred to Sebastian's dissapated life as an

alcoholic, but it was a much more fitting description of Rex. Sebastian actually had some depth and a soul, where as Rex was a hollow shell of a man.

[edhopper]

21. yes

not fully human.

[Demovictory9]

14. kick

[malaise]

18. It's perfect

Rec

[Hekate]

19. Kick