Tuesday 20th July 2010
I completely forgot – how could I? – that Rufus Pitman, blissfully married with separate residences and cities and countries to Raj Zoroaster, novel forthcoming about bears (it’s a type of gay), was equipped with a black truncheon, that could have been thought a sex toy, at Lord Arrowby’s party – actually it was a fan. But I feared arrest or assault or both when it was first flourished near my person.
Her Late Majesty Dame Edith Evans demonstrated fan work once on TV. The closed fan can be an instrument of reprimand, then commandingly opened without warning, then hidden behind with flirtatious effect or used to mark termination.
Poor Little Rich Gays, as we know from the case of the Smallmeal/Limpneys, are keen on sudden termination. Often it’s a question of getting in first. But the true Poor Little Rich Gay usually regrets it after two or three years. Anthony Mottram, ‘consultant’, of Prague, with whom I’ve been bickering away for the last forty years, informs me that our friendship has been ‘suspended’ since January.
‘Suspended’ by whom, I may ask? The head of HR? That’s ‘human resources’.
But between 1981 and 1986, for reasons now unknown, it was terminated.
Nevertheless, let’s all have party fans when London resumes in September.
The big news is, after I left, there was a stripper at Lord Arrowby’s party. And it wasn’t a man. Sudden lady in a mac, mac off, completely bare, nothing on.
I know it’s a cliché but yes, the men gays were traumatised. Shortly afterwards, Lord Arrowby called the carriages.
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Solange – well known fan of Lord Arrowby’s – is concerned. She was not informed of this stripper development. She has been in a fluster all week about the party. Now I see it was right for me to ban her attendance. All she does is moan. I hope it will soon be forgotten, though I am aware that strippers rarely are.
What a mercy Solange was prevented from attending! Her work would undoubtedly have suffered.