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| THE EARLY YEARS |
| Cuthbert Doublegrub (1880 - 1991) was born in a small fishing village on the East Coast of Scotland. He was one of forty children and was brought up in an atmosphere of struggling poverty. His father was a drunk and a tyrant who regularly beat his wife and children. On his death in 1898 Doublegrub left Scotland and made his way down to London where he soon made a name for himself as a poet, artist, playwright and libertine. |
| THE LONDON YEARS |
| Doublegrub soon gained a reputation as a Don Juan and was renowned for his prowess as a lover and for his many love affairs. He bedded many a woman from society, the theatre, the literary and art worlds and of course from whichever brothel happened to be nearest at the time. Many of these women would later become subjects for his many artistic studies of the female form. Preferably the naked female form. He stated in his 1912 manifesto - 'Wenches With Their Boobies Out' - that '...the naked form of a woman is the most perfect form on earth, especially if she has big jugs.' Doublegrub married Bettina Butteredbread, the daughter of a wealthy, American financier in 1914. Theirs was a long, but by no means happy marriage. |
| THE WAR YEARS |
| In 1917 Doublegrub was conscripted into the army and sent out to the trenches in war ravaged France. In a gun cleaning accident on the day after his arrival he lost the use of his 'trigger' fingers and was invalided out of the army. He spent the rest of the war in his summer retreat in the North of Scotland writing war poems. Many of these were later included in the 1926 anthology 'Collected War Verse 1914-1918' along with those of his better known contemporaries such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfreid Sassoon. |
| THE CELLULOID YEARS |
| In the 1920s Doublegrub became involved in the newly emerging media of cinema and was soon a director of renown working with the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brookes. Many of his films, which he described as 'a celebration of sexuality' fell victim to the censor's scissors and are now lost to us. |
| THE TWILIGHT YEARS |
| Doublegrub worked for the Ministry of Propoganda during WW II in which he made short films on the dangers of casual sexual encounters. When the war was over he returned to making films about casual sexual encounters. Perhaps though, rather than a film maker, Doublegrub is best remembered as being one of the most influential poets of the last century. His work has influenced many and played a part in the lives of many more. Dylan Thomas once said of him - '...never heard of the f*cking c*nt.' Surely a fitting tribute from a much admired poet. Doublegrub died suddenly on the set of his great, unfinished, avant-garde masterpiece - 'Big Jugs iii' - at the age of one hundred and eleven. |
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