Monday 6 June 2022

{Peculiarity}[10th October 1990]

[Redbook8:21][19901010:1531g]{Peculiarity}[10th October 1990]


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‘A fourth type of movement is defined as neither respectable nor dangerous but as peculiar; this type, seen as odd but harmless, encounters ridicule and has limited access to legitimate means.’*


Ah well, there we are then.**



* – Ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 16:614]


**{I think it was in July 1990, after [s’s local godfather’s wife]’s retirement party, that one of her family remarked that we were ‘odd, but nice’....}

[– she or he later informed us. Not much more than a decade later the mother of a close friend of the writer after meeting him for the first time remarked to her that he was odd. Wear the badge with pride....]



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