Talk:Vile Bodies

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Hi there, I quickly added the Latin phrase: Fiat Experimentum in Corpore Vili, which is the origin of the term. Boswell cites it as a favourite phrase of Johnson, who attributes it to an unnamed French physician; De Quincey mentions it in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; and Thackeray uses the phrase in the same sense in Henry Esmond. I will provide the citations later (no time now) - all are findable with a google search...

As a convert to Catholicism who (I presume) learned Latin in his youth, Waugh may have picked up the phrase from Thomas Aquinas, who in the first question of the Summa Theologiae says "it is more fitting that divine matters are related in scripture under the figure of vile bodies than of more noble bodies" (magis est conveniens quod divina in Scripturis tradantur sub figuris vilium corporum, quam corporum nobilium; I, q. 1, art. 9 ad 3). I can't confirm it, though, so I won't put this conjecture in the article. Wgrommel (talk) 20:11, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Crazy Pavements
It's often said that for this novel Waugh was influenced by (to put it mildly) Beverley Nichols's 1927 novel "Crazy Pavements". Support for this is in many places, certainly Bryan Connon's biography of Nichols. This should be mentioned. 74.119.231.16 (talk) 16:55, 18 June 2019 (UTC)captcrisis

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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"Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Philippians 3:21 KJV. Has anyone suggested this verse as the origin of the title?  Tigerboy1966  23:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Plot discrepancy
Towards the end of the story, the plot describes Adam finding himself on a devastated battlefield in France. Whilst this certainly happens in the film based on the book, Bright Young Things (2003), does this also happen in the book (I haven't read it)? This seems strange, considering the book was published in 1930. Did Evelyn Waugh predict WW2 nearly a decade before the fact? Sounds like someone is confusing the book and the 2003 film. 2A0A:EF40:122D:7801:CD24:DEB2:6809:F311 (talk) 14:06, 14 April 2024 (UTC)