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Kinglsey Amis/Philip Larkin unrepentant hebephiles

"Should late chums novelist Kingsley Amis and poet Phil...
pontificating big weed whacker
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Probably.
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Date: June 29th, 2013 6:53 PM
Author: pontificating big weed whacker

"Should late chums novelist Kingsley Amis and poet Philip Larkin now be regarded as paedophiles? Letters they wrote to each other indicate an interest in underage girls.

Says literary reviewer Christopher Hart: ‘Some of the letters housed in the Bodleian Library contain fantasies about girls aged between 12 and 16."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2240648/Should-Kingsley-Amis-Philip-Larkin-regarded-paedophiles.html#ixzz2XeHDsZ9V

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Date: June 29th, 2013 8:53 PM
Author: Magical Resort Becky

Probably.

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Date: June 29th, 2013 8:52 PM
Author: pontificating big weed whacker

http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/11/06/letters-reveal-dark-side-of-kingsley-amis-s-imagination

Richard Bradford's forthcoming The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin (Robson Press) reveals the novelist's fervent interest in young girls was a recurring theme in the letters he sent Larkin during the 1940s and early 1950s.

In January 1947, Amis informed the poet he had met a girl with "noticeable breasts". She was 12. A month later, he told Larkin, "There's only one fresh thing to report about my schoolgirl; whatever I did she would not respond beyond blushing and giggling and wriggling a little as if tickled, smiling affectionately at me and rubbing her warm cheek against mine, saying softly: 'You are funny, Kingsley'."

This, of course, was long before Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Over the years, Amis would reveal a lot more in his letters - "I have got as far as deciding on the preliminaries: a girl of 13, starting with her school hat and raincoat, takes off all her clothes while I sit and watch" - but Bradford makes it clear that however shameful his feelings, what Amis was admitting were his fantasies rather than reality.

"Amis did not molest or attempt to molest girls," Bradford wrote in the London Sunday Times, "but he was honest enough to confide his most disturbing thoughts to his closest friend. He was an intelligent and sensitive man, permanently at war with his baser instincts, a tension that enabled him to produce some of the finest fiction of the 20th century."

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Date: June 29th, 2013 8:54 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Hairy Legs Heaven

He should be posthumously tried for rape and accessory to rape culture.

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Date: October 22nd, 2013 9:51 PM
Author: pontificating big weed whacker



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Date: January 27th, 2014 9:23 AM
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Date: September 15th, 2014 3:56 AM
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Date: July 1st, 2013 9:45 AM
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Date: April 6th, 2015 2:07 AM
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Date: December 26th, 2015 8:39 PM
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Date: August 10th, 2016 4:56 AM
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Date: February 7th, 2018 6:24 PM
Author: Concupiscible hospital



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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:33 AM
Author: life is a hamburger



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