Book: Brideshead revisited



The form of a nip the sheep on the hill under the shade of a spreading elm trees we ate the strawberries and drank the wine which, as promised Sebastian, with strawberries was delightful - lit fat Turkish cigarettes and lay on top of Sebastian looking up at the thick foliage, and I'm sideways at his profile, whereas the bluish-grey smoke was rising above us, not a single shaken breath, and lost in the bluish-green shadows of the wood crown and the sweet scent of tobacco mingled with aromas of summer, and a pair of the sweet Golden wine seemed to lift us a finger above the ground, we hovered in the air without touching the grass.
- The best place to bury a crock of gold, ' said Sebastian. - It would be good everywhere I've been happy to bury something of value, and then in old age when it becomes ugly and miserable I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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That semester I began to realize that Sebastian was a drunkard in quite a different sense than I do. I got drunk often, but from excess of vitality, enjoying the moment and wish to drink it to the dregs; Sebastian drank to escape. The older and bigger we both became, the less I drank and the more he.
№ 226791   Added MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 14:52
"Realities of life" you can't learn from hearsay...
№ 200960   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
This is a simple and good woman wrong I loved.
№ 200959   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
The story of a young life will not be truthful if it does not find reflection of anguish on children's concepts of good and evil, remorse and determination to improve, the black watch, which, like zero on the roulette wheel, drop from the roughly predictable regularity.
№ 200958   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
Only a very strong faith to stand entirely alone...
№ 200957   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he is not primitive, but rather very modern, the ghastly century. A small part of a man pretending to be a whole human being.
№ 200956   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
There's nothing like a good upbringing.
№ 200955   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 22:02
... The past and the future pressing so hard on both sides, which for the present does not have any space.
№ 190159   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 14:23
Of course, those that have charm don't really need brains.
№ 153119   Added MegaMozg 11-01-2017 / 12:05
Charles, in my opinion, you haven't changed.
- Yes, unfortunately.
- Would you like to change?
- It is life.
№ 149039   Added MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 21:29
- What is it?
Heart. Some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
№ 130753   Added MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 21:52
... you can sympathize with each other, vchuzhe interested in even how was our life, and regret that fate threw us, knowing that if only one morning to pick up the phone, and your voice will sound at the head of another, as if opening the door and entering with the sun and orange juice, and yet, never do this step, obeying the centripetal force of our individual worlds and the cold space between us.
№ 130752   Added MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 21:52
The trouble with modern education is that it masks the true dimensions of human ignorance. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's not. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable, and only when this thin crust of knowledge breaks through, you see beneath it, deep depressions / valleys, whose existence was not even suspected.
№ 130751   Added MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 21:52
Maybe all our love is only a sign, a symbol, just random words written in passing on fences and sidewalks along a long, tiring journey has already been traveled by many before us; perhaps you and I - just some images, and sadness, sometimes attending us, is born of the disappointment we experience in their quest tschas catch in other that flashed a shadow in front and disappears, never having admitted to myself.
№ 130749   Added MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 21:52