1. A few thoughts on English novelists who refused to to share fruit with children during World War II rationing & subsequently.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
2. Evelyn Waugh story is well known but bears revisiting. During WWII and after, food strictly rationed in Britain. Fruit a cherished rarity
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Replying to @HeerJeet
3. June, 1946. A shipment of bananas arrives. Government makes it priority to give bananas to children, many of whom have never eaten one
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Replying to @HeerJeet
4. Laura Waugh secures three bananas for her oldest children, Theresa, Auberon and Margaret. They sit at table, ogling the fruit.
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5. Enters the paterfamilias, Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited. He demands all the bananas be put on his plate.
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6. Auberon Waugh's account: ."before the anguished eyes of his children, [Evelyn Waugh] poured on cream, which was almost unprocurable..."
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Replying to @davidrieff
@davidrieff Exactly right. He was preforming the comedy of hardheartedness.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@davidrieff Absolutely. I think "Handful of Dust" is his masterpiece. Later stuff pales.
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