Thursday 9th June 2011<\/p>\n
Not interested in Norse myth? Barely heard of or can\u2019t bear Wagner? Rather be at Prada? Don\u2019t go away. This will be visionary and completely new.<\/p>\n
You remember some weeks ago, we saw Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em> cast live from the Met. It\u2019s part of The Ring <\/em>cycle of four operas which last a total of 14 hours. I\u2019ve seen it before but never realised it\u2019s all about Poor Little Rich Gays, despite every appearance to the contrary \u2013 such as fearsome Viking helmets with horns, grey sack cossies and rough timber the only known wall finish.<\/p>\n Now, if you\u2019ve never heard of Wagner, don\u2019t let that impede. It\u2019s enough to know he\u2019s awfully important and lends greatness to the Poor Little Rich Gay project.<\/p>\n The main person is a God called Wotan. Awful name. He\u2019s not really a God, more of a Chief Exec Officer (huge power, with limits), so an immediate parallel with PLRGs, who, as we know, drive straight to the top. You won\u2019t believe this, but he\u2019s got the builders in! Just as Poor Little Rich Gays have the entire time. Huge project to build Valhalla, which was to be the dream home of dream homes. Heavenly ethereal motif in the music whenever it is mentioned.\u00a0 In fact it never quite seems to exist, although it was built apparently, which is exactly as the Poor Little Rich Gay home is \u2013 just out of reach, but always yearned for and the search never ending.<\/p>\n Poor Wotan, just like Poor Little Rich Gays here and throughout the world, arches high but can plunge as low the other side. There\u2019s one terrible moment when he longs for obliteration so awful is the ghastly tangle of obligations he\u2019s got himself into re: the building of Valhalla. So Poor Little Rich Gays know the tragic burden of their calling: we must blaze with glory but never forget that in the end we are nothing. In the monumental scene with his daughter Br\u00fcnnhilde ,who has been disobedient, he unleashes his devastating power. But Br\u00fcnnhilde stands up to him, tells him a thing or two. He recognises the searing truth of what she says, sees his own weakness and vulnerability. As we know, Poor Little Rich Gays take Kitchens (see glossary). They want someone to care for, nurture and tend but not always, unlike Wotan, do they know the limits of their power.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Wotan\u2019s private life. He\u2019s got a wife called Fricka who\u2019s the Goddess of Marriage and the most ghastly old harridan and Mrs Grundy figure. Wotan\u2019s wandered and got children all over the place. Two of them<\/em> have fallen in love. Wotan is convinced the consequent love-child is the only hope for the future, but Fricka is fuming: \u2018It\u2019s incestuous,\u2019 she shrieks. \u2018Your trouble,\u2019 Wotan tells her, \u2018is that you never predict the unexpected.\u2019 \u00a0Marvellous. Fricka! She is marriage as conventionally known \u2013 absolute yuck! Neat little units of two in a fully equipped domestic setting with morality \u2013 never! For the Bath Abbey wedding on Friday I visited www.weddingshop.com<\/a> (wedding list solutions) and paid for two dinner plates at \u00a350 a piece. It\u2019s still going on, you know, all of that. Laura Malcolm was on the phone, contemptuous.<\/p>\n In our Poor Little Rich Gay world, we have some Civil Partnerships, quite a lot of wandering about which we think little, although there might be a terrible drama at the time, and some very extreme configurations, where one half is away for months living with someone else or just away.<\/p>\n One thing we do know, more or less, as much as we know anything: sex, in the home, does not endure or, after a time, is not required.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not against intimacy. In the best lives there might well be one and only one to whom you are completely known, with whom you are absolutely at home although frequently seared, harrowed, wracked and maddened. Let\u2019s hope that\u2019s the one you are married to or at least near married to. It might well not be. For me, that person was Anthony Mottram of Prague, first met by me in September 1970 at our minor Public, Barrowborough. But for the past 17 months, he has been keeping me in Abu Ghaib and I\u2019ve had to manage without. I must ensure I do not turn bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday 9th June 2011 Not interested in Norse myth? Barely heard of or can\u2019t bear Wagner? Rather be at Prada? Don\u2019t go away. This will be visionary and completely new. You remember some weeks ago, we saw Die Walk\u00fcre cast live from the Met. 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