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| Quentin Crisp, former actor and writer |
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At my preparatory school I won a very poor scholarship to a public school on the borders of Staffordshire and Derbyshire . . .
I was very plain. My rich mouse hair was straight but my teeth were not. I wore tin-rimmed spectacles. In spite of this formidable natural chastity belt, I did spend one night in bed with another boy. He was the only Indian in the school and, when his arrival in our dormitory was heralded, I hoped that he might be some unimaginable animal given to fits of terrible rage. This was not so. Sexually he was a little more precocious than the other boys and went with prostitutes during the holidays but in all other respects, he was only as dangerous as the rest. Our sleeping together was part of the thinly spread orgy that was a ritual on the last night of every term. The occasion could only be described as a success inasmuch as the object of the exercise was to do it and to be known to have done it. These ends were achieved. I did not expect any pleasure and there was none. I did not even experience a sense of sin. The intimations of immorality had come and gone some time back. (England, mid-1920s)
from The Naked Civil Servant: An Autobiography by Quentin Crisp (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, © 1968)
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