The
further adventures of Basil Seal during World War II. Basil visits
Alastair and Sonia Trumpington. Peter Pastmaster rejoins the
Household Cavalry. Sonia tells Basil Margot Metroland says the last
war was absolute heaven. Basil was once leader writer for The
Daily Beast,
and also served in the personal entourage of Lord Monomark.
Pappenhacker of the Hearst press is mentioned as having been informed
of a Polish submarine that is said to have arrived at Scapa. Angela
Lyne had her home decorated by David Lennox just before the war. It
is said of Angela’s public drunkenness it would scarcely have been
more surprising had it been Mrs. Stitch herself. Lady Anchorage is
present at Peter’s marriage to Lady Granchester’s daughter.
Angela describes her father’s friends as men like Metroland and
Copper. Ambrose Silk’s literary journal is published by the firm of
Rampole and Bentley. In the late 1920s, Ambrose and his friends Hat
and Malpractice issued the invitation to a party in the form of a
manifesto. Basil
Seal first appeared in Waugh’s Black
Mischief,
and several characters from that novel reappear here. Basil also
appeared in the unfinished novel Work
Suspended.
Alastair Trumpington first appeared in Decline
and Fall,
while his wife Sonia debuted in Black
Mischief.
Alastair also appears in the story “Out of Depth.” Peter
Pastmaster previously appeared in Decline
and Fall,
Vile
Bodies,
and Black
Mischief.
Peter’s mother Margot Metroland also made her first appearance in
Decline
and Fall,
and went on to appear in many of Waugh’s other interconnected books
and stories. Lord Metroland, her husband, is the Metroland mentioned
as a friend of Angela’s father. Lord Monomark previously appeared
in Vile
Bodies and
Black
Mischief,
and was mentioned in A
Handful of Dust and
Work
Suspended.
The
Daily Beast,
its publisher Lord Copper,
Pappenhacker,
and Mrs. Stitch are from Scoop.
David Lennox appeared in Decline
and Fall,
and was mentioned in Vile
Bodies.
Miles Malpractice appeared in both of the aforementioned novels. Lady
Anchorage appeared in Vile
Bodies and
was mentioned in A
Handful of Dust.
Mr. Rampole first appeared in Vile
Bodies.
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