Scoop
In his novel Scoop, Evelyn Waugh fictionalized the speculator and businessman Francis William Rickett as “Mr Baldwin”. Evelyn Waugh was aware that the mysterious Rickett had deep links with oil … Continue reading Scoop
Tag: Evelyn Waugh
An interior of others
The photograph above if of Jenners Department Store, Edinburgh. The following words are borrowed from Ali Smith (‘Winter‘) and Evelyn Waugh (‘Decline and Fall’): The film “An interior of others” … Continue reading An interior of others
A handful of dust
A few selected quotes from ‘A Handful of Dust‘ by Evelyn Waugh:
It was the glitter-freeze
A short film about “the beast from the east” (the snowstorm at the end of February to the beginning of March 2018). It was the glitter-freeze: Filmed in Bridge of … Continue reading It was the glitter-freeze
Driving the wrong way through history
This film is about Charles Brand Ltd, Dundee. This company demolished, or partly demolished, much of the ‘built history’ that still survived in Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s. Not … Continue reading Driving the wrong way through history