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“I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.”

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Quentin S. Crisp

According to limited available information, Quentin S. Crisp, born in 1972, is a person whose identity and profession have not been publicly documented in detail. more

“I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.”

“I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.”

Thinking Children Stills Country Lasts Given Innocent Queens Britain Silver Recalls Last Time Coins Jubilee

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.”

Years Made Film Courses Movement Punk Jubilee

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“I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.”

Lost Longing Innocence Remove

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.”

Ifs Knows Loss Crisis Oil Scales Innocence Not Sure Seventies Scandal Hiroshima Watergate Loss Of Innocence

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.”

Feels Decades Ran Sixty Seventies Hangover Lurking

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“People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.”

People Thinking Seventies

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“You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.”

Looks Term Built Agents Inches Pyramids Fractions Alignment Bonding

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.”

Men May Age Lost Intelligent

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.”

People Ifs Men Way Bigs Together Force Perfect Gone Balance Stones Legs Cards Lifts Pairs Inches Hitting Pyramids Fractions Alignment Playing Cards

Author:John Henrik Clarke

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