AtD translation: Whitehall, Blackpool

[rich]

Whitehall/Blackpool. yes, literally black and white, but two places that
are polar opposites, the heart of bland power, the former, the latter, the
coney island funfair of the avg joe in the latter
or so i think

rich

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P701.5-16   “Look here,” Cyprian imagined he could explain, “it isn’t ’s if
> one starts off intending to live this way . . . ‘Oh yes planning, you know,
> to seek a career in sodomy.’ But—perhaps less at Trinity than at King’s—if
> one wanted anything like a social life, it was simply the mask one put on.
> Inescapable, really. Every expectation, most of us, of leaving it all
> behind after the final May Week ball, and no harm done. Who could have
> foreseen, any more than the actress who falls in love with her leading man,
> that the fiction might prove after all more desirable—strangely, more
> durable—than anything the civilian world had to offer. . . .”
>
>        Ratty, bless him, didn’t blink any more than he usually did. “My
> alternatives were a bit less colorful. Whitehall, Blackpool. But it’s only
> fair to warn you, you might have to absorb a bit of character assessment.”
>
> Apart from the wordplay, is there anything else about Blackpool that's
> relevant here?
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