Oscar Wilde

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM

Lamarca, howling with tears here, that's a verse from my all time weepy song.... first love and all that..... but I have a Beardsley print in the bathroom.... wentto an amazing exhibition in the Victoria & ALbert museum 2 years ago. He loved trying to get rude bits past the censors, and suceeded more times than they like to admit....!

Wilde has been a favorite for years. His statue by St Martin's in the Fields, London is bloody good too.

It's doubtful he's resting, but I suspect he's very merry indeed!

LTS

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: lamarca
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:12 PM

Saw the absolutely fantastic Art Nouveau exhibit at the Smithsonian last weekend, complete with a vintage Aubrey Beardsley print from Wilde's "Salome"...

Just a digression, but it was kind of funny how many originals of the art that decorated my college dorm room were in this show - Beardsley, Klimt, Moreau, Redon...

"I took all those habits of yours
that in the beginning were hard to accept
Your fashion sense, your Beardsley prints
I put down to experience..."

I'm older now, but still like the edge of depravity the Symbolists and Secessionists skirted...

Rest you merry, Mr. Wilde.

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 06:02 PM

Sing a verse of "Taimse i mo choladh agus na gluaisigh me" in his honour; Wilde used to sing his sons to sleep with this savagely nationalistic lullaby with its charming and calm melody.

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: guinnesschik
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 05:49 PM

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

My personal favorite... ;-)

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 05:37 PM

The recording was known to be a mistaken identity a few years ago, but only revealed today....

There was an excellent cartoon in Private Eye this month - obviously titled lady standing at bottom of stairs, eying up butler who is carrying something.... A sandbag???!

Very topical if you've been flooded out recently, and made me laugh hysterically on the tube....

LTS

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 05:10 PM

There is an Anniversary Exhibit at the British Library

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: MARINER
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 04:56 PM

Wilde's Mother came from my home town, in fact the last of his relatives here, died 2 years ago. For those interested the Irish national broadcaster R.T.E. are now broadcasting a season of Wilde's plays and readings. Details can be had about their net broadcasts from RTE.ie.

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:48 PM

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it".

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: kendall
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 02:34 PM

the first time he heard the bagpipes he remarked "Thank God, there is no odor"

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: okthen
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:54 PM

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

Thanks Oscar, if only for being the first choice,when,(in a trivia quiz) asked "who said......."

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Doctor John
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:47 PM

There's supposed to be a recording of Oscar Wilde reading something I forget which was broadcast in the sixties. His son - then an old man - thought it might be his father although he had not seen him since he was nine years old. This very crakly recording is the voice of what sounds like an old man and, as Oscar Wilde died young, it is now though highly unlikely to be him.
What a tragic story his life was. Dr John

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Matt Woodbury/Mimosa
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:33 PM

click here for A lovely site in his honor . "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Mimosa

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Ringer
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:19 PM

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Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Ringer
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:18 PM

"A handbag?"

Just testing really. The forum header page showed 1 message but there were 2. Does mine make 2 or 3?

Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:16 PM

Thank you for this, I like him and didn't realize we had an anniversary here... What a genius!

Subject: Oscar Wilde
From: Fiolar
Date: 30 Nov 00 - 01:14 PM

Thought folks might like to be reminded that the great Oscar Wilde author of that magnificent poem "The Ballad of Reading Jail" passed away exactly one hundred ago today on November 30th 1900, thus keeping the promise he made - "either that wallpaper goes, or I do." He was always a man of his word. M