On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:42:02 -0600, HMS Victor Victorian
<victorvictorian@hushunomail.com> wrote:
>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!
Hey Victor!
Ah yes, good old Caligula. What a crazy bastard he was. And his Uncle,
Tiberius (played by Peter O'Toole in the movie) and his little fishes,
that was the life, eh?. 'My little fishes love me'. LOL! I need to
figure out how to be Caesar without being assassinated. If I can do
that then you won't have to build a pool. You can just come over to my
boy island. In the meantime, in The Fort, Jimmy is gracing the Fort
pool. Worth a visit if you have the time. He knows how to work a
speedo, that boy....
I'm very happy that you were simply busy. I would have written sooner
but the Little League World Series is going on over here and well, I
DO have my priorities. I'm sure you'll forgive me. I am recording some
of the games and in HD this time. Woohoo! Maybe they will warm the
cockles of our hearts this winter. And you thought I was asleep. ;)
Much love,
Doc
NP-f31
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