Wednesday, February 1, 2023

wed., 1 feb., 2023: le bonjour de au revoir, ix.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH:  Il en est ainse...  

        

)   He’s queer...”   NOTE:  This is not intended as an insult,  more as gossip or pillow talk.  This was writ by M.P. Henry Chips Channon in his diary ** upon meeting the young playwright (& unknownst to him future lover) Terrence Rattigan.  Initially Channon found Ratigan cute but dull, but gradually became smitten by Rattigan, always lavishing him with expensive shirts & cufflinks,  even expensive writstwatches,  even after they broke up. His diaries, now uncensored, provide around 3400 pgs of highly detailed Who’s-Fucking-Who history of the upper classes in the UK, France,  & the US, fr. circa w.w. i.,  through to the post-w.w. ii period,  & into the late 1950s.  No turn is left unstoned.

**) Henry ‘Chips Channon: the Diaries, 1918—38, ed., Simon Heffler, Hutchinson, 1124 pgs, 978 1 7833 1816;  Henry ‘Chips Channon: the Diaries, 1938—43, ed., Simon Heffler, Hutchinson, 1120 pgs, 978 1 7833 1823;  Henry ‘Chips Channon: the Diaries, 1943—57, ed., Simon Heffler, Hutchinson, 1168 pgs, 978 1 52915 1725  

  

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