bookdom

I just finished Brideshead Revisited last night, and I found it perfectly enjoyable, much more than I thought I would. Having said that, I really feel that I "missed" major chunks of the novel's meaning, or import, by simply not getting them, not paying enough attention, or not really thinking of the symbolism of the text. And to think I got firsts in my English courses! I've just started Robert Dalek's biography of John F Kennedy, and it has bonus points already by starting with a Yeats quote. I also have to tell Big Bro that JFK used to wander round Lismore Castle in Co. Waterford wearing chinos and a crumpled seersucker jacket. Big Bro has just bought himself a seersucker suit, and wears it for every possible occasion.