This was a great interview, and it was very interesting to read that Waugh admits to being influenced by Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises": I remember reading that book and "Vile Bodies" at much the same time and thinking to myself how similar they were (though Brideshead, really, is very different).
Whenever I have the misfortune to visit a shopping centre, I always make an effort to quote Waugh: "All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies..."
Whenever I have the misfortune to visit a shopping centre, I always make an effort to quote Waugh: "All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies..."