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Last episode, Sylvie and Dora termed the four-year-old Marquis de Sade a “tempestuous princelet”. Thus a new phrase was coined, definition “a wilful child possessing the imperious manner of a young noble”. In this episode the ladies risk reputational damage trawling local playgrounds for this newly identified specimen. Two candidates are unearthed: saintly Little Lord Fauntleroy, the unwitting aristocrat who launched a thousand pairs of knickerbockers, and The Tin Drum's Oskar Matzerath, the diminutive virtuoso known throughout Nazi-occupied Poland for his piercing scream. Wheeled out of the polio ward into the sunlight, the girls quail before The Blue Boy, the hunchback-by-proxy, the budding dictator of taste, the inherent evil of the child and the Oedipus complex.
