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the war had marked by inaugurating the Age of the Common Man, to whom no one was more antipathetic than Waugh — probably because he was himself, as one of his aristocratic friends told him, nothing more socially than ‘a common little man . . . who happens to have written one or two" moderately amusing novels.’"
There may be a place for royal purple prose, as in the matter of Nelson’s immortal putt, but I never
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