Wednesday 9th September 2009<\/p>\n
Anthony Mottram is to dine with Ceausescu family remnants on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0He is flung into a moral dilemma which\u00a0strikes at the\u00a0 heart of\u00a0Little Rich Gay life and illuminates my own Smallmeal crisis. \u00a0Exceptionally, I am removing\u00a0 his outstanding remarks from\u00a0the Comments department and putting them on the front page.\u00a0 You can imagine, it has not been difficult to stand by a mind of this quality for the last 40 years, even though, given less than half a chance, he would take this blog over entirely.<\/p>\n
Mottram says: ‘The\u00a0path of this\u00a0blog, I presume, is the moral exploration of rich gaiety. So I have a troublesome question for Edge.<\/p>\n
I am travelling now to Bucharest, where on Saturday I shall dine with the residual Ceausescus (you will remember that a few of them were put up against a wall at the end of 1989, an unexpected Christmas gift from an ungrateful people). They are consulting me on their investment in the manufacture of rat poison. The question is, how should a Poor Little Rich Gay comport himself with the families of fallen dictators?<\/p>\n
You see, in some ways they resemble us closely: they deplore convention (in their case the conventions of democracy), spurn the masses, are indifferent to suffering (certainly if of others), have a high regard for frockage, retain a sense of entitlement even following eviction from office, demand total and obedient service, possess vast amounts of money, are usually elegant and always haughty, and make careful use of make-up and cosmetic surgery. Do you think it is sufficient acknowledgement of the suffering of millions to adopt a slight frown (say no more than a second or two) as we are introduced?<\/p>\n
I must know by Saturday.’<\/p>\n
And you shall.<\/p>\n
Leave it to others, in organic sandals and non-child-reared cotton, to\u00a0be moral and self-sacrificing. I notice you do not consider cancelling your dinner with the Ceaus. You need that rat poison deal to fund your Museum apartment in Prague, your daily housekeeper, your three-week holidays in long-haul boutique hotels with your current non-paying kitchen, your kitchen’s designer knickers etc.<\/p>\n
Poor Little Rich Gays are called on to add to the gaiety of nations.\u00a0 That is enough. Through this blog those less fortunate can glimpse a glittering life. This is giving.<\/p>\n
Earnestness would not suit. There are plenty it does. What’s more, as you point out, Poor Little Rich Gays have much in common with dictators. It was wickedly said, when the Multis first opened their present Riverside apartment, ‘Saddam Hussein would have favoured this decor.’\u00a0 It’s not true of course. It was just all the marble and onyx that suggested it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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