词条 | Moab Is My Washpot |
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| name = Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography | image = Stephen Fry moab is my washpot.jpg | caption = | author = Stephen Fry | editor = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Autobiography | publisher = Random House | release_date = 1997 | media_type = {{nowrap|Print (Hardcover & Paperback)}} {{nowrap|Digital (eBook)}} | pages = 448 pages | isbn = 0-09-945704-0 | followed_by = An Autobiography }} Moab Is My Washpot (published 1997) is Stephen Fry's autobiography, covering the first 20 years of his life. In the book, Fry is candid about his past indiscretions, including stealing, cheating and lying. The book covers some of the same ground as in Fry's first novel, The Liar, published in 1991. In that work, public schoolboy Adrian Healey falls in love with a boy called Hugo Cartwright; in the autobiography, 14-year-old Fry becomes besotted with 13-year-old "Matthew Osborne". Fry also writes about his older brother Roger, Bunce (the new boy at his prep school, Stouts Hill), Jo Wood (his best friend at Uppingham), and Oliver Derwent (a prefect who "seduces" Fry). TitleThe title, never explained in the text of the book, is a verse found in Psalm 60 and Psalm 108. Through wearing sandals, people's feet would become filthy in the dusty desert environment and upon entering a home feet would be washed with water by pouring water over them into a washpot. Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and so became likened to a wash pot or basin.[1] This title was selected because Fry saw the book as "scrubbing at the grime of years".[2] Fry, being a fervent P.G. Wodehouse fan (having written a foreword to a "Best of" compilation of his works, and having played Jeeves in the British comedy series on his works), is likely to have been inspired by a quote from Uncle Fred mentioning Pongo Twistleton's exploits in the book Uncle Dynamite: "Pongo," said Lord Ickenham, "is in terrific form. He bestrides the world like a Colossus. It would not be too much to say that Moab is his washpot and over what's-its-name has he cast his shoe. ..." Matthew OsborneIn a 2001 article for the Evening Standard, Andrew Billin wrote that Fry was reunited with "Osborne" after the publication of the book: Many pages of the deepest purple are devoted to this Matthew Osborne, "the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life". I ask if the pseudonymous Matthew, with whom he eventually achieved some form of splendour in the long grass, had been in touch since the book came out in 1997. He had. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols16-18/chs983.pdf |title=Moab Is My Wash Pot|year= 1872|author=Charles Spurgeon|work= Metropolitan Tabernacle|accessdate=17 February 2019}} 2. ^{{cite news |title=We'll have to take his word for it |newspaper=The Sunday Times |first=Humphrey |last=Carpenter |date=October 5, 1997 |page=10}} 3. ^{{cite news | title=Why Stephen is still Peter's friend | work=Evening Standard | date=21 February 2001 | author=Andrew Billen | pages=29}}
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