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Thread #15513   Message #139462
Posted By: InOBU
22-Nov-99 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: OBIT: A hero of mine has passed - Quentin Crisp
Subject: RE: A hero of mine has passed
I noticed Quentin before I knew who he was, as he would spend a lot of time here in New York on Saint Marks Place. To stand out and be noticed on Saint Marks Place, for thouse of you who know New York, is a real acomplishment in its own right. He was to become a regualar patron at the theater my father built and ran in the last decades of his life, Theatre 80, where Quentin would go to see old films. Art, even traditional art is about the courage to speak truth to power in spite of all the odds and prejudices of society, or it is worthless noise. To all who made Quentins life a challenge, well... you gave him a chance to show he was the better man. If my liver was up to it, I would raise a glass, but here is to one of the greatest of Englands civil servants. Larry Otway