This was a great interview, and it was very interesting to read that Waugh admits to being influenced by Hemingway&#x27;s &quot;The Sun Also Rises&quot;: I remember reading that book and &quot;Vile Bodies&quot; at much the same time and thinking to myself how similar they were (though Brideshead, really, is very different).<p>Whenever I have the misfortune to visit a shopping centre, I always make an effort to quote Waugh: &quot;All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...&quot;