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How did Waugh's conversion affect his writing?
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Waugh's conversion did not greatly affect the acerbic and sharply satirical tone of his fiction. His principal characters were frequently amoral and their activities sometimes shocking. Waugh claimed "the right to write of man's depravity in such a fashion as to make it unattractive". When "Black Mischief" was published in 1932, the editor of the Catholic journal "The Tablet", Ernest Oldmeadow, launched a violent attack on the book and its author, stating that the novel was "a disgrace to anybody profess