Talk:A Handful of Dust

message: That unattributed quote is mentioned in Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography. Unfortunately I can't check for the source of the quote as you can only search inside the book if you have an account with amazon which has bought something. If anyone else has access they can perhaps cite a source and make Wikipedia proud. MeltBanana 14:14, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: The phrase "...a handful of dust...) also appears in John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, IV Meditation, 1624,(The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, The Modern Library, Charles M. Coffin, Ed., Random House Inc., Copyright 1952, at pages, 418-420):
"....Call back therefore thy Meditation again, and bring it downe; whats become of mans great extent and proportion, when himselfe shrinkes himselfe, and consumes himself to a handful of dust?..."
71.91.40.89 (talk) 15:25, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Eliot got it from Donne, and Waugh got it from Eliot. Hadrian89 (talk) 21:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Handful of Dust 

message: I added a line to the end of the plot summary, alluding to the new owners of Hetton dedicating a memorial to Tony and planning to restore Hetton. I thought it deserved a mention, as its existence in the story does give a relatively significant semblance of relief. -- And Rew 04:36, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing about their plans for restoration visible today. But aren't the cousins who inherit Hetton in their way as deluded as Tony? Aren't their dreams of restoration as impractical as his? --Clifford Mill (talk) 11:09, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

message: A first-class book deserves a first-class article. I shall be working to that end over the next few weeks. Brianboulton (talk) 21:21, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article development 

message: Shouldn't it read " to demonstrate the futility of humanis'm'"? (It's also in "From today's featured article".)--Mideal (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No - to slightly re-work the sentence in question, it 'deals with humanist values, as distinct from religious values'. - SchroCat (talk) 14:46, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: it should read "Catholic teaching on matrimony is not a "stance"; no annulment is "guaranteed"."  108.56.199.37 (talk) 02:31, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: Doing some work on Madresfield Court, I've come across a number of sources which cite Madresfield as the model for Hetton, e.g., , . I wonder if it might be a more suitable example than Ettington Park? KJP1 (talk) 09:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
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