"You know Father Mowbray hit on the truth about Rex at once, that it took me a year of marriage to see. He simply wasn't all there. He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something aboslutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.
Well, it's all over now.
It was ten years later that she said this to me in a storm in the Atlantic."
/Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh/
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