Cin no Djinn how?

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Hello:I have no idea what "cin" could mean here:(Brenda Last writing to her husband Tony, about Djinn, Marjorie's/her sister's dog. BTW, Cruttwell's their bone-setter.)Saw Jock last night at Cafe de Paris with shameless blonde.Cin no Djinn how? has rheumatism and Marjorie is v. put out about it. She thinks his pelvis is out of place and Cruttwell won't do him which is pretty mean considering all the people she has brought there.Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, p. 91Wonder if this is jargon, an abbreviation, shorthand, etc.Thank you.Marius Hancu

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[nq:1]Hello: I have no idea what "cin" could mean here: (Brenda Last writing to her husband Tony, about Djinn, ... is pretty mean considering all the people she has brought there. Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, p. 91 [/nq]
Saw Jock last night at Café de Paris with shameless blonde. Who?
Gin. No, Djin how? has rheumatism and Marjorie is v. put out about it.

Nobuko Iwasaki

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[nq:2]Hello: I have no idea what "cin" could mean here: ... there. Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, p. 91 [/nq]
[nq:1]Saw Jock last night at Café de Paris with shameless blonde. Who? Gin. No, Djin how? has rheumatism and Marjorie is v. put out about it. [/nq]
After this clarification (thank you, Nobuko Iwasaki), it seems to me as though the narrator is not sure how to spell the person's name. "Gin" is just one of two spellings the narrator came up with. Djin rhymes with Gin. And "how?" is just the narrator's shorthand way of saying, more or less, "how is it spelled?"
Mike G.

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Indeed.
Thank you both.
Marius Hancu

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[nq:2]Saw Jock last night at Café de Paris with shameless ... and Marjorie is v. put out about it. [/nq]
[nq:1]After this clarification (thank you, Nobuko Iwasaki), it seems to me as though the narrator is not sure how to ... rhymes with Gin. And "how?" is just the narrator's shorthand way of saying, more or less, "how is it spelled?"[/nq]
Or is asking how the dog came to become rheumatic after realising the correct spelling. "Djinn Palace" aka "Gin Palace" was a dwelling in Happy Valley, well known to Waugh and the scene of the notorious Errol murder.

John Dean
Oxford

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[nq:1]Or is asking how the dog came to become rheumatic after realising the correct spelling. "Djinn Palace" aka "Gin Palace" was a dwelling in Happy Valley, well known to Waugh and the scene of the notorious Errol murder.[/nq]
That too.
Forgot Waugh travelled quite a lot.
Then, on your reference, went to:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857028945/202-2908153-99015 to find a story on the Errol murder. Interesting.
Might have seen the movie, not sure ...
Marius Hancu

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[nq:1]Interesting name, She-Evelyn.[/nq]
Well, their friends needed a way of differentiating them, innit?
[nq:1]Did they marry? Was it just temporary?[/nq]
Yes, they were married for about two years. (She was Evelyn Gardner before they married.)
[nq:1]BTW, what's your take of the "under-water look," what does it mean? We had quite a discussion on that one here.[/nq]
I'm a bit baffled. 'Under-water look' suggests someone dreamy and ethereal, pale, washed-out, but in photographs She-Evelyn looked like a round-faced pixy, with big eyes, a turned-up nose and a mischievous smirk and she was apparently the epitome of the noisy, excitable flapper. (She called Marcel Proust 'Prousty-wousty' - how too-too-sick-making.) The 'very fair' must refer to her complexion because she had brown hair. (Also long legs and precious little bust.)

Perhaps 'under-water look' means 'bug-eyed'.
[nq:1]How about the other ending? I am really curious about it, and I don't think I am going to go the length of ordering the other version ...[/nq]
The different American ending was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine for its serialised version, retitled A Flat in London , and it looks like the American book versions of A H of D were always the same as the English ones.
Anyway, what happens is Tony doesn't head off into the jungle, he goes on a luxury cruise, becomes tougher and wiser somehow (perhaps his confidence is boosted by unexpected success at deck quoits), and returns to London to find that Brenda wants a reconciliation. Tony agrees, but now that he is a tougher and more brutal quoits-champion sort of chap (or whatever) he secretly hangs onto his bachelor pad so that he can have a bit of nookie on the side.
I remember thinking that the original ending didn't really fit and Selena Hastings says that this one is much more 'congruent'. She does concede, however, that it's built on wish fulfilment.

Incidentally, it was published as a separate story, By Special Request , in a collection called Mr Loveday's Little Outing . I don't know whether that is still available.

Mickwick

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[nq:2]Or is asking how the dog came to become rheumatic ... to Waugh and the scene of the notorious Errol murder.[/nq]
[nq:1]That too. Forgot Waugh travelled quite a lot.[/nq]
He published four travel books between 1929 and 1935 (Kenya features in "Remote People") and then collected "all that I wish to preserve" of them in "When the Going Was Good" (1946) which has been much reprinted. The description of Haile Selassie's coronation is fascinating.

Don Aitken
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[nq:2]Interesting name, She-Evelyn.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, their friends needed a way of differentiating them, innit?[/nq]
Too early in the day, I guess, didn't realize the coincidence:-)
[nq:1]The different American ending was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine for its serialised version, retitled A Flat in London , and it looks like the American book versions of A H of D were always the same as the English ones.[/nq]
It seems that there are editions which contain both. I'll try to find them. I love his writing.
[nq:1]Anyway, what happens is Tony doesn't head off into the jungle, he goes on a luxury cruise, becomes tougher and ... Selena Hastings says that this one is much more 'congruent'. She does concede, however, that it's built on wish fulfilment.[/nq]
I prefer the Amazon ending and I think the fame of the novel was due to a large extent to it (I was utterly shocked by it, so ridiculous and tragic at the same time), but perhaps I am wrong. Certainly Tony (and perhaps Waugh) was the one more punished into it, while Brenda just switched to another track. If Waugh suffered by describing Tony's predicaments, all the more power to him that he was able to transcend his own story to create something this dramatic.
You're right the Amazon ending doesn't quite "fit": it was created the first, as an independent story. It didn't bother me.

The ending you describe is IMO meeker and brings more satisfaction to Tony (and perhaps to Waugh himself, but not on the writer's side, I presume).
You may want to read the review by D. C. Smith "rabid bookfiend" here:
A note about those two endings..., July 6, 2004
at:
http://tinylink.com/?HZBsqI7fju

which provides more background.
Thank you.
Marius Hancu

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[nq:2]After this clarification (thank you, Nobuko Iwasaki), it seems to ... way of saying, more or less, "how is it spelled?"[/nq]
[nq:1]Or is asking how the dog came to become rheumatic after realising the correct spelling. "Djinn Palace" aka "Gin Palace" was a dwelling in Happy Valley, well known to Waugh and the scene of the notorious Errol murder. [/nq]
I can see that. I've never read the book, and have little perspective on it outside of what was posted. That Djin was a rheumatic dog never entered my mind.
Mike G.

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[nq:1]of them in "When the Going Was Good" (1946) which has been much reprinted. The description of Haile Selassie's coronation is fascinating.[/nq]
Wilfred Thesiger was there as a young man, and referred to it briefly but enticingly somewhere (in the preface to Arabian Sands , perhaps?): did he give a fuller description anywhere?

Mike.

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