Time for me to post this quote again, more appropriate than ever.

[edhopper]

“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 the whole.”

― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

[polichick]

1. Perfect!

[elleng]

2. Thanks. Should re-read it.

[smirkymonkey]

3. +1000

Do you think he could even comprehend that, let alone realize that it described him perfectly?

[edhopper]

5. rhetorical

yes?

[lunasun]

4. ++we're entwined in a "gruesome affair" with an empty manipulative idiot due to R voters . 🤬

[canetoad]

6. K&R

I read Brideshead many years ago. Who was he talking about?

[edhopper]

7. Julia telling Charles

about Rex Mottram

[canetoad]

8. Thanks! nt

[PatSeg]

10. Thanks

I was trying to remember who it was as well. Excellent quote.

[PETRUS]

9. Holy crap.

Well chosen.

I haven't read that book, but if I ever wondered about why it's considered a modern classic I no longer will.

[PatSeg]

11. I read the book twice

and watched the mini series with Jeremy Irons four or five times and the movie twice. Definitely a classic!

[Dem2theMax]

12. That needs to be on his tombstone.

The sooner, the better.

And in case Agent Mike is around, I mean by natural causes.

[burrowowl]

13. Yes!

[Dem2theMax]

14. I will personally go get the tools, and start chipping away at the stone.

We need a Tombstone smilie. The one we used to have when someone got 'tombstoned.'

I don't know if it still gets used around here. I haven't seen it in ages.