"the times" this morning has republished an astonishing 1987 interview between boycs (geoffrey boycott) and psychiatrist dr (ha!) anthony clare. shades of "fawlty towers" where the major tells fawlty "strange creatures, women—i knew one once". don't you think? clare: in late adolescence, did you think about girls?
boycs: no, who are they? what are they?
clare: what happened to them for you? i mean, did your mother say to you: "geoffrey, stay away from the women?"
boycs: "stay away from the girls," she said. 'they get you in the woods, they get you into trouble."
to be sure, to be sure.
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Is that what the girls did to you? They took you in to the woods and got you in to trouble? You know, that may explain a lot...
post says nothing about me. (i just think the incident is funny—in an english way, naturally.) it's about the oddity of boycs and the major. fancy having that attitude to girls in adolescence. reminds of another english expression "touch me not, my mother's fixed me".
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