Kiss me tonight, for tomorrow I may be bankrupt
Lisa Hilton 4:19pm
And still the band plays on, though the chairs are beginning to tilt imperceptibly down the deck. Perhaps there’s only so much wretchedness people can take. Aside from the fact that the jewellery dealers of Hatton Garden now feature boxes of tissues on their counters, like divorce lawyers (turns out diamonds were a girl’s best friend after all), London seems frenetically intent on squeezing out a few last drops of debauchery.
Hatchard’s Christmas signing last night was packed with readers swigging wine and lugging green bags of hardbacks, while the usual quota of deranged Gissing characters clustered with their autograph books. Signatures are apparently still sound and one could hardly grab a seat in the Ritz. Sebastian Horsley’s “evening of moral turpitude” at Marylebone speakeasy Underbar was packed, whilst rumours of extremely louche goings on at a certain ambassadorial residence in Portland Place suggest that swinging is the new going out.
Quentin Crisp wrote of the Blitz that the streets of blacked-out London became a paved double bed; “Voices whispered suggestively to you as you walked along, hands reached out if you stood still and in dimly lit trains people carried on as they had once behaved only in taxis.” All shamefully irresponsible, but cheering to think that this the winter of our discontent might be set to be a new summer of love.
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canon alberic
November 28th, 2008 4:37pm Report this commentThis sounds like a gossip column from the 1920's, only not intentionally. Because unlike, say, Tom Driberg's Dragoman, its neither witty, nor well connected (Sebastian Horsley - give us a break) nor even coherent. Just embarassing sub-urban snobbery then. Please stop it - there are surely some other medieval queens to entertain.
Pinkmobile
November 28th, 2008 4:40pm Report this commentOh my God.
I wondered who Verity was talking about when she mentioned Lisa someone or other but then she gave a description of the perpetrator's prose and it matches entirely.
It really is as bad as she made out.
What's going on in that place?
Is this a work experiencer throwing stuff on the Coffee House when the rest of the staff are busy?
Anthony
November 28th, 2008 4:45pm Report this commentWho is filing this guff?
Is it Venetia Thompson with a nom de plume?
It really is as bad as that.
You've not got any better, Venetia, so a pseudonym won't work for you - whoever you are.
Basil
November 28th, 2008 5:53pm Report this commentOh, for God's sake! Who is this witless woman and why is anyone giving her space to air her mindless drivel?
Geoff Hampton
November 28th, 2008 7:16pm Report this commentOh God, she's back.
Austin Barry
November 29th, 2008 1:51am Report this commentWhat is the point of this commonplace tosh? It's like overhearing the fatuous nonsense being spouted by an airhead with a mobile 'phone.
Henry Rogers
November 29th, 2008 7:33am Report this commentDear Editor,
Do we really need any more from Ms Hilton? Even more of a turn-off than Mr Korski.
Henry Rogers
November 29th, 2008 7:48am Report this commentDear Editor,
Following on from my last. If you need new contributors, for Heaven's sake give Verity a regular slot instead of people like Ms Hilton. Verity really can write, she is interested in things that matter and even when many of us disagree violently with her arguments (often!) they are always interesting.
Polly and Alice's mum
November 29th, 2008 11:33am Report this commentDo none of you at the Speccie read the comments?
The last time this awfull woman wrote in the coffeehouse, there seemed to be not a single word of praise.
PLEASE can we not have any more of this drivel.
Chris
November 29th, 2008 1:16pm Report this commentI go away for 24 hours, and you let her out of her cage AGAIN!
Bangkok Hilton
November 29th, 2008 1:31pm Report this commentYes, but did you write Belle De Jour?
Ann
December 19th, 2008 12:24am Report this commentThis woman is so stupid, or on drugs!!!Get rid off her, Katona could be even better!!!
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