Marie's Area
I got to know about Quentin from "The Naked Civil Servant" which I watched
on television years ago. I must have taped it 'cos I remember watching it a
couple of times.
Years passed and the tape got lost.
When I started collecting movies and music that have meant something for me in my life, somehow "The Naked Civil Servant" was on the list. So I bought it - 2nd hand - and watched so many times that I almost still know all the lines.
I don't really know why.
I guess I used it as you know like "sleeping movie". You put it on when you go to bed, watch until you fall asleep - and the tape runs out while you are in DreamWorld.
Some years ago I asked an English woman if she knew about Quentin Crisp, and she said "Of course" and told me about his living in America and having shows on tv.
I knew nothing about that.
"I want to meet that guy", I thought.
I never went to see Quentin in US.
I have once been working in travelling business and know several homosexual people, who are still my friends. I have asked them if they know about Quentin. They don't.
No, he is not well known here in Copenhagen. If he is, it is a secret to me.
Maybe one has to be a little eccentric to pay attention to people like Quentin.
I, myself, think I am like any other person. But people tell me I am eccentric. Who cares?
Remember that movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" about certain persons living normal lives all over America suddenly felt they had to go to a certain place 'cos something was gonna happen that they needed to be a part of?
I think perhaps it is the same with Quentin. Special people gather around something special without knowing why.
I showed "The Naked Civil Servant" to a friend whom I have not seen since we went to school together many years ago. Now we met again. Well, actually we did not just "meet" we were looking each other up. He is playing music to me, music that means something to him, and he reads stories for me, stories he would not be without.
I do the same to him. And so I "forced" him to watch Quentin. Afterwards he said: "Can I watch that again?".
Marie Bernard
Copenhagen, Denmark
22 January 2008
Years passed and the tape got lost.
When I started collecting movies and music that have meant something for me in my life, somehow "The Naked Civil Servant" was on the list. So I bought it - 2nd hand - and watched so many times that I almost still know all the lines.
I don't really know why.
I guess I used it as you know like "sleeping movie". You put it on when you go to bed, watch until you fall asleep - and the tape runs out while you are in DreamWorld.
Some years ago I asked an English woman if she knew about Quentin Crisp, and she said "Of course" and told me about his living in America and having shows on tv.
I knew nothing about that.
"I want to meet that guy", I thought.
I never went to see Quentin in US.
I have once been working in travelling business and know several homosexual people, who are still my friends. I have asked them if they know about Quentin. They don't.
No, he is not well known here in Copenhagen. If he is, it is a secret to me.
Maybe one has to be a little eccentric to pay attention to people like Quentin.
I, myself, think I am like any other person. But people tell me I am eccentric. Who cares?
Remember that movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" about certain persons living normal lives all over America suddenly felt they had to go to a certain place 'cos something was gonna happen that they needed to be a part of?
I think perhaps it is the same with Quentin. Special people gather around something special without knowing why.
I showed "The Naked Civil Servant" to a friend whom I have not seen since we went to school together many years ago. Now we met again. Well, actually we did not just "meet" we were looking each other up. He is playing music to me, music that means something to him, and he reads stories for me, stories he would not be without.
I do the same to him. And so I "forced" him to watch Quentin. Afterwards he said: "Can I watch that again?".
Marie Bernard
Copenhagen, Denmark
22 January 2008