Chapman had demons all right: queer and closeted and everything that goes with that, and just a little too early for the gay liberation movement. I have always felt very bad for him.
I highly recommend Terry Jones's children's books. Nicobobinus was a formative text of my childhood, long before I triangulated it with the Pythons in my head, and is IMO staggeringly erudite, very funny, and, bar none, the weirdest fucking children's book I've ever read, which is saying something. His others are also good, although not like that one. Nicobobinus is levels of weird which snuck up on me and clocked me in the face thirty years later when I ran across a random historical reference and discovered that he didn't make up the pirate monks, which were both real and where and when he said they were. If that gives you any idea, which it probably doesn't.
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Date: 2020-11-20 11:21 pm (UTC)I highly recommend Terry Jones's children's books. Nicobobinus was a formative text of my childhood, long before I triangulated it with the Pythons in my head, and is IMO staggeringly erudite, very funny, and, bar none, the weirdest fucking children's book I've ever read, which is saying something. His others are also good, although not like that one. Nicobobinus is levels of weird which snuck up on me and clocked me in the face thirty years later when I ran across a random historical reference and discovered that he didn't make up the pirate monks, which were both real and where and when he said they were. If that gives you any idea, which it probably doesn't.