/lit/ - Literature

>>13596801
he wasn't saying they LOOKED like prisons, old stick. and like i said it's not relevant, BUT i bet prisons did change lots between the victorian era & the twenties, don't you, old bean?
>That is not the point
course it is.
oh right. well, i don't know how you know so much about it, no one talked about it except re ucas. and i think they've been similar since the beginning & will be til the bitter end unless all the staff are dismissed, buildings demolished and everything rebuilt elsewhere under a different name.
>Non, ce n'etait pas.
comment ca?
>your insertion of your fanfiction into Waugh's perfect novel
unthinkable.
>they're called public schools where you live and have pools and metal detectors and think football involves helmets
not sure what to say to that, old horse. i know a school in hartlepool where they've got a pool. so does london oratory.

>>13596906
seems to me the more important lessons of those schools are enacted, not taught.