Prendergast had taught with Captain Grimes and the protagonist at Llanabba Castle, where the protagonist had taken a job after a prank by the Bollinger Club at Scone College led to his running across the quad without his trousers.
One unusually stationary character in this novel compares life to the spinning wheel at Luna Park, and claims humanity is divided between "static and dynamic." That character, Otto Silenus, is an architect for the protagonist's one-time fiancee, who marries the minister of transportation to become Lady Metroland. The protagonist spends some time at a prison run by the reform-minded Sir Lucas-Dockery, whose leniency towards a lunatic carpenter leads to the death of Mr. Prendergast. Prendergast had taught with Captain Grimes and the protagonist at Llanabba Castle, where the protagonist had taken a job after a prank by the Bollinger Club at Scone College led to his running across the quad without his trousers. For 10 points, name this book about the misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, the first novel of Evelyn Waugh.
One unusually stationary character in this novel compares life to the spinning wheel at Luna Park, and claims humanity is divided between "static and dynamic.
Decline and Fall