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“If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.”

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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

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

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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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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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.”

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

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