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Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: GeorgeH Date: 06 Dec 00 - 08:55 AM The complete letters of anyone - even O Wilde - are likely to contain a fair bit of dross, IMO . . G. |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: GUEST,Sarah Date: 06 Dec 00 - 09:05 PM John Nolan, Sez who? Now you've done it -- I may not sleep tonight, wondering about the tomato plant in the sphinx's nostril. C'mon, give it up...tell it all, brother; tell it all! And please DO post the photo. Sarah |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: katlaughing Date: 07 Dec 00 - 02:19 AM That is a great site, Mimosa, thanks! kat |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: John Nolan Date: 09 Dec 00 - 09:44 PM Sarah: Oscar Wilde's tombstone is the fifth tomato down on the left at www.stephaniepiro.com/fcpart5tomato.htm |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Fiolar Date: 10 Dec 00 - 05:02 AM After 105 years an English artist Royston du Maurier has settled Oscar Wilde's unpaid bill of Three Pounds, Six Shillings at James Long and Company of London. The firm made hats. Oscar cab now rest in peace. M |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: GUEST,Sarah Date: 10 Dec 00 - 01:04 PM John Nolan: Thanks! A fun read! And now I can get some sleep again... Fiolar: Three cheers for du Maurier -- a gentleman true! Sarah |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 21 Dec 00 - 09:55 PM Rubel, just a belated word to say that's a really neat critique of De Profundis. Exactly my own reaction, but I'd have had to use a lot more words to get it across. Rick, I'm aware of your longstanding respect for Quentin Crisp. Believe me, Oscar had all his qualities in spades, and maybe even some more. Try to read what he said in the witness box and in the dock at his trials (all of which had to be genuinely ad-libbed of course); the Soul of Man Under Socialism, and the Ballad, which even if not fine verse, shows the depth of the man, and how enormously compassionate he was. It's almomst regrettable that he was so clever - it has tended to obscure his other qualities (which is true of QC too, in terms of how he is generally perceived and remembered). I think you're right about Stephen Fry though - I'm sure he got as near to the man as we're ever going to get. |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Jim Dixon Date: 22 Dec 00 - 07:28 PM I've heard there is an Irish band called the Wild Oscars. Anybody know anything about them? |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: John Nolan Date: 22 Dec 00 - 08:52 PM Haven't heard of the Wild Oscars, but in Glasgow rhyming slang, someone departing the company will often say, "See you Oscar." This refers neither to Oscars Wilde nor Wild, but to one Oscar Slater, who was hung for murder. See you Oscar (Slater) = See you later! |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: bflat Date: 22 Dec 00 - 11:02 PM "Who,being loved,is poor?"--Oscar Wilde. I guess he never experienced divorce. |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: freda underhill Date: 16 Oct 05 - 08:35 AM As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." Oscar Wilde (born, 16 October 1854 - Happy 151st birthday, Oscar!!) |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Le Scaramouche Date: 16 Oct 05 - 08:51 AM In the Fry film, you really get the impression of how prison must have broken Wilde. I do mean physicaly as much as emotionaly. As an historical novelist, I'm very partial to Oscar's 'Decay of Lying'. |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 16 Oct 05 - 03:00 PM The quote that epitomises Wilde's swift wit is his response to a hostess: Hostess:- "Mr Wilde, are you enjoying yourself?" Oscar:- "Madam there is nobody else here to enjoy." Don T. |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: Elmer Fudd Date: 16 Oct 05 - 10:23 PM Blessings on your birthday, dear, tormented Oscar. Amongst the many brilliant epigrams: "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out." and "I can resist anything except temptation." FYI to bflat: Oscar did know divorce. His wife's relatives forced her to divorce him while he was in prison, and to change her and their children's last name to "Holland." Elmer |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 17 Oct 05 - 09:47 PM Housman himself wrote a sarcastic poem in defense of Wilde -- a courageous thing to do, for he was (as we now say) a closeted gay. It was published posthumously by his brother: Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair. (Additional Poems, XVIII) --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Grammar: ethology or ethics? :|| |
Subject: RE: Oscar Wilde From: GUEST,weelittledrummer Date: 18 Oct 05 - 09:22 PM I always think of oscar when I pass Bingham Notts. apparently one his university friends was the son of the vicar of Bingham. Oscar was a visitor to the vicarage and he fell in love with the vicar's daughter, but her dad didn't like the cut of his jib. Richard Ellman wrote great biographies of both Wilde and Joyce. the ellman is pretty damn good but it lacks the narrative drive of the Hesketh Pearson book that they based the Peter Finch film on. I remember once I thought to myself why didn't Ellman mention this incident - of course when I checked, he had done with even more detail - but with less narrative elan. all the best you wilde men and ladies out there al |
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