Talk:Lord Sebastian Flyte

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This article should probably be revised because it has factually incorrect statements.

1. The first time we see Sebastian in the novel is when he picks up Charles for their first trip to Brideshead. And Charles "knew Sebastian by sight" well before the encounter with the vomiting; and learnt who he was at the barbershop. So the statement that he first appears in the novel in the vomiting episode is false.

2. The allusion to homosexuality was vague not to ensure publication (most publishers would jump at the chance of publishing a novel by Evelyn Waugh who was a very prominent writer by the time he wrote Brideshead); it is just vague enough because Charles, when he gets older, values the friendship and the spiritual part of the relationship far more than the part that he refers to, and believes to be, sin. The reader is left in absolutely no doubt that Charles and Sebastian were in love.