From Evelyn Waugh, “The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold”

From Evelyn Waugh, “The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold” September 9, 2016

His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz–everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: “It is later than you think,” which was designed to cause uneasiness. It was never later than Mr. Pinfold thought.


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