Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Yes.
It was very, very frightening.
And I felt this at school.
I think perhaps the first time I really felt the danger of my own nature was when I was having dinner at the Chateau Ton restaurant in St.
Petersburg with Apuchtin and a few sympathetic friends, when suddenly
In the middle of the supper, a man stood up in the restaurant and stridently denounced us for our habits, hurling all sorts of epithets and slurs at us.
We're teenagers.
And the next day, our names were published across the city in connection with that ugly French word, bougre, buggers.
And it was then that I realized that my nature was a peril to me, that like a spider, I could be reviled for being what I am.
There was a freedom with certain friends and a freedom in certain places.
There was a very dear friend of mine called Prince Moshevsky and he called himself Prince of Sodom and Citizen of Gomorrah.
You can imagine that things were a little freer with him.
But for myself, I was always terribly frightened, and I wanted to be dignified, and I wanted to be respectable.
And I eventually found ways to try to suppress this thought.
We were jumping ahead, but I attempted to get married once.
Well, we're going to hear about that in a moment.
A terrible disaster.
Very good.
I passed my tests with flying colours and was, after that, admitted to the Ministry of Justice.
It was, indeed.
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