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Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp

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On the Nakedness of Civil Servants

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Sep 13, 2022
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Writing about rainbows recently, and the death last week of HRH QEII, reminded me that the best antidote to Prideful identity politics is/was that other expired Queen of England, Quentin Crisp, who before his death in 1999 turned being totally abject into an epigrammatic art form - and somehow a living. This essay was originally published on marksimpson…

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