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Posted by stephen on Sunday, 05th February, 2006 @ 23:56

"Strange the ways in which loyalty to one's parents can show itself: never when they are there and when they would cut off a finger to see the tiniest scrap of evidence of filial devotion, but always when they are miles away. I visited a boy's parents one Sunday for tea when I was eight or nine and saw that they used Domestos in their lavatory, not Harpic which we used at home and I remember thinking poorly of these people because of it. We were Vim, Persil Fairy Liquid and RAC, other families were Ajax, Omo, Squezy and AA and one pitied them and felt slightly repelled: didn't they realise they had got it all wrong? Fierce pride in one's parents' choice of bathroom scourers, withering contempt for their opinions on anything concerning life, the world and oneself."
Stephen Fry, Moab is my Washpot.