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HOW EVELYN WGH'S GAY OXFORD LOVER BEME BRISHEAD REVISED’S SEBASTIAN
It is implied that Sebastian is homosexual, and he velops a long-term relatnship wh a German man named Kurt later the novel. Samgrass’s ft edorship had assembled and arranged a curly homogeneo ltle body of wrg—poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished say or two, which all exhaled the same high-spired, ser, chivalro, other-worldly air and the letters om their ntemporari, wrten after their aths, all varyg gre of articulatens, told the same tale of men who were, all the full flood of amic and athletic succs, of populary and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart om their fellows, garland victims, voted to the sacrifice.
Ined his tense relatnship wh a fellow stunt spired the most lourful and perhaps most famo character the book: the charismatic and unmistakably homosexual Lord Sebastian Flyte, regnisable to lns through his portrayal on screen by Anthony, who also wrote the 1938 classic Sop, regard the novel, published 1945, as his ‘magnum op’ and he revealed more of himself than any of his prev books.
He got dnk for the first time, disvered a zeal for alhol and soon veloped a reputatn for rto Evelyn’s own acunt, most of his Oxford iendships were fed while of the iendships had a pronounced homosexual flavour. ’ – maly homosexual character. But while the disgrace of Lord Bechamp – who was hound to exile on acunt of his homosexual affairs – provid the ia for Lord Marchma’s story the novel, Alastair Graham remas the most nvcg mol for had often vised Alastair’s home, Barford Hoe, near Stratford-upon-Avon, which was prid over by Alastair’s widowed mother Jsie.