Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Oh, you were the same age, were you?
We were exactly the same age.
And he was the first to teach me to accept my own desires.
He taught me something about the ancient Greek.
Indeed.
I realised when I went to the school of jurisprudence, which of course was completely filled with boys, that I had... Was it a boarding school?
It was, yes.
Oh, so you were sent away from... I was sent away for a long time.
She was going to leave me forever.
And I felt it was a prison sentence.
And she said, go and play with the other boys, Pyotr.
Well, she little dreamed how faithfully I would follow her instructions.
I began to feel very strong affections for some of the boys.
There was a young boy called Sergei Kyraev, only a year younger than I.
for whom I developed something of an infatuation.
And all the more so, I fear, because he treated me very, very cruelly.
Once he even slapped me in the face in front of all the other boys, which was a terrible humiliation, and I have to admit only added zest to my affection.
What perverse creatures we humans are to love the thing that brings us pain.
And Apuctin, who was much more in touch with his feelings and much more overt than I, taught me that I shouldn't be ashamed of my own nature.
Now, I fear in this, he was a little naive about the nature of the world, because this is a hangman world.
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