On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:15:54 -0400, NP-f31 wrote:
>Hey Double V,
>
>Are you back from vacation yet?
>
>Love,
>
>Doc
>NP-f31
Dearest Doc,
I apologise for having neglected my correspondence of late. Thank you
for your kind letter to my hush account some days hence. I am
flattered.
I have been quite busy lately, having just secured a permanent
position as instructor at a small institution. I gladly accept the
luxury of not having to worry about money in my accounts quite as much
as usual, but understand that luxury draws heavily on the account of
time. I have also just completed watching the wonderful 1976
mini-series by the BBC, "I Claudius." I'd read Graves work better
than twenty years ago, but had never seen it. Although the work is a
masterpiece, and there were several young boys in short tunics in
several scenes (tho' nothing revealing-blast!), my opinion of the
Roman imperial families was confirmed, that they were conniving,
treacherous and brutal--and that their perversions were equally so.
In the film, Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known by the chilling
name of Caligula, finds annoying the chronic cough of a boy of the
court, perhaps eleven years of age, who was favoured by Claudius. He
sends the General of his Praetorian Guard to the lad with instructions
to make it right. Presently the General returns and presents
Caligula with, dripping in gore, the poor boy's head. With a smile,
Caligula comments to Claudius, "Oh, yes. And I've cured his cough."
This particular atrocity seems unsubstantiated in the historical
records, but I find there are many such cruelties to children that are
a matter of record. Tiberius, who preceded Caligula, kept an island
resort where little girls ran naked as nymphs ... and as did little
boys. The Emperor took frequent pleasure in raping the girls ... and
enjoyed snapping the necks of the little boys with his bare hands. Can
you imagine! Monstrous sadism! Monstrous!
I've never postured that young boys, however comely and willing, could
not be utter beasts in much the way of the older folks. Additionally,
looking at the supposed sanctity of children from a completely
objective point of view, a human child could be seen as having no more
intrinsic value than a cockroach child, and that it could equally be
conceived therefore that the killing of the former could engender no
more guilt than the killing of the latter.
And so it was ... and, I fear, in many places still is. Considering
these terrible things, and despite all the injustices and hatred
suffered by Boylovers nowadays, I am grateful that I live and love in
these times!
As an aside, I once heard there was an emperor who enjoyed swimming in
the nude. He never swam alone, but in the company of a dozen or so
hand-picked naked young boys who leapt into the water as soon as the
Emperor did. As the emperor paddled his way across, his "little
sharks" as he called them, would come up beneath him and nibble gently
as his ... well, you get the idea. I hope this fellow wasn't
Tiberius, for that would ruin this wonderful mirage of paradise.
Nevertheless, I think I'll put in a pool.
Sincerely Yours,
HMS Victor Victorian
God Save the Queen.
God Bless the Prince of Wales.
God Preserve the Windsors.
Rule Britannia!
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