What a treat Caliba!! - moissi beauchamps of you ![laugh](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_laugh.gif)
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A very interesting quotation from Proust, vinteuil - I especially enjoyed Proust's confession that Saint-Saens is a composer 'I don't care for'![smiley](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_smiley.gif)
I recall reading in a biography of Saint-Saens that a friend discreetly asked S-S (not Simon-Says I hasten to say) if it was true that he (S-S) was a paedophile?
"No!" replied the great man " Not a paedophile - a pederast!"
I like to think that he said pederast very loudly, causing much consternation and social flutterin'.![biggrin](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_biggrin.gif)
Rather like the time when Alan Clark (the MP not the film maker with an 'e') was accused of being a Fascist. His reply went something like:
" People say that I'm a Fascist but I'm not. Fascists are shopkeepers. I'm a Nazi!"![laugh](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_laugh.gif)
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A very interesting quotation from Proust, vinteuil - I especially enjoyed Proust's confession that Saint-Saens is a composer 'I don't care for'
![smiley](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_smiley.gif)
I recall reading in a biography of Saint-Saens that a friend discreetly asked S-S (not Simon-Says I hasten to say) if it was true that he (S-S) was a paedophile?
"No!" replied the great man " Not a paedophile - a pederast!"
I like to think that he said pederast very loudly, causing much consternation and social flutterin'.
![biggrin](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_biggrin.gif)
Rather like the time when Alan Clark (the MP not the film maker with an 'e') was accused of being a Fascist. His reply went something like:
" People say that I'm a Fascist but I'm not. Fascists are shopkeepers. I'm a Nazi!"
![laugh](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_laugh.gif)
![laugh](https://www.for3.org/forums/core/images/smilies/f_laugh.gif)
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