Σήμερα ο Στ. Κασιμάτης στη Καθημερινή μεταφέρει μια από αυτές τις μυθικές, τις φανταστικές στιχομυθίες που δεν έγιναν ποτέ.
Αλλά, για να μην σας κουράζω με ένα ατυχές remake, προτιμώ να σας παρουσιάσω το πρωτότυπο, δηλαδή τον διάλογο μεταξύ της θρυλικής βουλευτίνας των Εργατικών Μπέσι Μπράντοκ και του Ουίνστον Τσόρτσιλ: «Ουίνστον, είσαι μεθυσμένος!» Και η απάντηση του Ουίνστον: «Μπέσι, είσαι άσχημη. Αύριο όμως εγώ θα είμαι ξεμέθυστος». (Σημειωτέον ότι η Μπράντοκ ήταν τέρας ασχήμιας...)
Αντιγράφω από τη Wikipedia:
[Bessie Braddock] is often erroneously credited with a celebrated exchange of insults with Winston Churchill, also ascribed to Nancy Astor:
Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk."
Churchill: "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly."
Ήταν ακριβής ο Σ.Κ. ως προς την ασχήμια της Μπράντοκ. Το εξώφυλλο βιογραφίας της:
Αξίζει να προστεθεί εδώ σύνδεσμος σε κείμενο του Simon Hoggart για διάφορους παρόμοιους πολιτικούς μύθους:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cal-myths.html
You could fill a book with what Winston Churchill didn't say. It would be almost as long as one made up of genuine quotes.
There's no record of the occasion when the Labour MP Bessie Braddock said: "You are drunk!" and he replied: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." It was an old gag, even then.
As was the time when he passed an office in Parliament and heard an MP bellowing. "He's talking to Edinburgh," someone explained. "Then why doesn't he use the telephone?" Churchill replied. Or rather he didn't.
Nor did he say: "An empty taxi drew up at the Commons and Mr Attlee got out." Churchill was unhappy that people believed he had said it, so he tried - and failed - to set the record straight.
The truth was that, behind the party political knockabout, he had great admiration for Attlee, who as Deputy Prime Minister had been a stalwart colleague through the war.
But people assumed that the mighty Churchill must look down on the quiet, diminutive Labour leader, and of course the jibe stuck.
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