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>deece choice, a rebours, that poor turtle.
Two turtles. Rex Mottram in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh was trying desperately to become a sophisticate so he could aspire to the hand of Lady Julie Flyte was told by someone (perhaps Cordelia Flyte, that naughty little saint) to read A Rebours to educate himself in the aristocratic mindset, so he gave Julia at great expense a tortoise with its shell emblazoned with her initials in diamonds.
Rex was a vicious caricature of the odious Churchill insider, the Canadian press baron Lord Beaverbrook, a vulgar garrulous little jew. Waugh had already lampooned this hateful shit in Scoop as Lord Copper. "Up to a point, Lord Copper".