{"id":56457,"date":"2013-07-22T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=56457"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:05:06","slug":"archie-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56465\" alt=\"archibaldoglarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it could only be like this always\u2014always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper \u2026\u201d So says Sebastian Flyte of his teddy bear, one of the most memorable minor characters in <em>Brideshead Revisited<\/em>. Both affectation and security totem, Aloysius (played in the iconic ITV miniseries by one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-459461\/Found-Aloysius-Brideshead-bear.html\" target=\"_blank\">Delicatessen<\/a>) was modeled on a real toy: Archibald Ormsby-Gore, who belonged to Evelyn Waugh\u2019s Oxford friend John Betjeman.<\/p>\n<p>And while Aloysius may be Archibald\u2019s most famous literary representation, it\u2019s not the only one: in the 1940s, Betjeman wrote a book for his children, titled <i>Archie and the Strict Baptists<\/i>. (The main character, a practicing Baptist, is a keen amateur archeologist.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0719534291\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0719534291&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">An illustrated version<\/a> appeared in 1977. The bear, which Betjeman was holding when he died, now resides in St. Pancras, with his elephant companion, Jumbo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf it could only be like this always\u2014always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper \u2026\u201d So says Sebastian Flyte of his teddy bear, one of the most memorable minor characters in Brideshead Revisited. Both affectation and security totem, Aloysius (played in the iconic ITV miniseries by one Delicatessen) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[11440,5764,6881],"class_list":["post-56457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-archibald-ormsby-gore","tag-evelyn-waugh","tag-john-betjeman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Archie Revisited by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 22, 2013 \u2013 \u201cIf it could only be like this always\u2014always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper \u2026\u201d So says Sebastian Flyte of his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Archie Revisited by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 22, 2013 \u2013 \u201cIf it could only be like this always\u2014always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper \u2026\u201d So says Sebastian Flyte of his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-22T19:34:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-07-22T21:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Archie Revisited\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-22T19:34:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-22T21:05:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":15,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/archie-revisited\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/archibaldoglarge.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Archibald Ormsby-Gore\",\"Evelyn Waugh\",\"John Betjeman\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Arts &amp; 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