tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post2661340566461492658..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Much to Forgivezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-65906241773033314762017-02-22T09:14:24.842+01:002017-02-22T09:14:24.842+01:00The editing is possibly not super reliable so poss...The editing is possibly not super reliable so possibly he wasn't the "inventor". Also the time frame given is odd - I think the rule of thumb in England is - or was - no drinking till after 6 (or, for the really abstemious, 6.30). As to Fussell, a) the diaries are intriguing for their revelation of the schoolboy Waugh and b) I haven't got far but the entries for September, 1925 are as funny as anything I've read, by Waugh or anyone else. Possibly the drunkenness plus the supposed privacy of his diary gave him a looseness that I find appealing.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-21162439520704694882017-02-20T23:59:23.406+01:002017-02-20T23:59:23.406+01:00Given Alec Waugh's reputation, I can only supp...Given Alec Waugh's reputation, I can only suppose that it was Francophobia that made him think the cocktail party preferable to the cinq-a-sept. And I wonder whether he did invent it.<br /><br />The American critic Paul Fussell wrote that Waugh's letters are superior to his diaries, for he wrote the latter at night and commonly drunk, the former in the morning sober. I have read more of the letters than of the diaries; and I think that few writers would take as much care in a diary as they would in letters.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com