Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp

On the Nakedness of Civil Servants

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…