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(Second in a Series)
From David Bittner:
"My favorite lines from Brideshead Revisited are the Latin phrases Ef in Arcadia Ego and Quomodo Sedet Sola Civitas. I would define the two themes of the novel as nostalgia about youth and religious return, and for me these two little economic foreign phrases say it all. They send shivers up and down my spine. As for a laugh line, I nominate Rex's response to Father Mowbray's test: suppose the Pope said it was going to rain and then it didn't? "I suppose," says Rex, "that it would be sort of...