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Oscar Wilde Anyone read his work?

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Posted 03 June 2004 - 02:10 AM

I'm just curious to know if anyone else has read Oscar Wilde. I think it's almost required reading for humorists even though his subject matter can seem kind of silly in itself. It's not often you hear the words "good heavens" used seriously. But then again who today can produce dialogue like this scene where Jack argues with Algernon over whether he should get christened a second time

JACK: You have been christened already.

ALGERNON: Yes, but I have not been christened for years.

JACK: Yes, but you have been christened. That is the important
thing.

ALGERNON: Quite so. So I know my constitution can stand it.

If you're interested in reading his books and poems you can get them free online here in text form so you never have to lift anything or leave your computer. It's perfect!

http://etext.library...ilde_oscar.html

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Posted 03 June 2004 - 06:46 AM

I always thought Oskar Wilde was somewhat of an ass. Just saying.
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Posted 03 June 2004 - 03:30 PM

I might read his work when I have a free moment and a good state of mind.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry...
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Posted 04 June 2004 - 03:12 PM

I suspect Rory's loathing for Oscar Wilde stems from a secret recognition that they are more alike than they are different. And I don't mean the gay part. I mean the being-an-ass part.

Rory bought our mom an Oscar Wilde magnet for her birthday. And somebody gave me an Oscar Wilde shotglass once. Who did that?
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Posted 05 June 2004 - 12:37 AM

Good heavens! They make Oscar Wilde shotglasses and magnets? How dreadful!

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Posted 21 June 2004 - 07:00 AM

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I always thought Oskar Wilde was somewhat of an ass. Just saying.


I don't know. Some of his stuff is pretty funny and his last words are some of the greatest last words ever -

"Either that wallpaper goes or I go."

That is just brilliant.


* If I got the wording at all wrong, and anybody knows the correct wording, please post it up.
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Posted 21 June 2004 - 03:41 PM

That is damned good. I really think Wilde was cool, if for nothing else than for how much he poked fun at good english society of the time and freaked people out.

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Posted 21 June 2004 - 07:21 PM

Absolutely. And someone had to have a laugh at it all. It was pretty strange sometimes.
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Posted 22 June 2004 - 10:53 AM

Sure, anyone can have fun with The Importance of Being Earnest. But if anyone here has actually read the whole of Salome, I salute you! It's like getting past the windmill part in Don Quixote. Impossible!
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Posted 22 June 2004 - 01:32 PM

I found Salome to be very readable indeed. O hieratic language! and kissing a severed head is WONDERFUL. wub.gif
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Posted 22 June 2004 - 02:24 PM

Old Oskie tried too hard.
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Posted 22 June 2004 - 02:34 PM

I have a marvelous picture of Caolan posing with Oscar Wilde's emmasculated tomb angel in Pere Lachaise. It is marvelous!
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Posted 22 June 2004 - 11:19 PM

Oh yeah. I am making a kissy face, because the angel has lipstick kisses all over it. Abd I am wearing Pink Pants. And a very Wildean velvet jacket.

I think I have a copy of that picture somewhere, too.
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Posted 23 June 2004 - 01:53 AM

JYAMG- I think the victorian era would have been sweet to live in, you were either going to be a rich guy who did nothing but eat cucumber sandwhiches and say indeed or a lovable little scamp who learns about his long lost family. You can't beat that!

Laura- I take your challenge and shall read Salome as soon as I finish his assorted poems and Bram Stoker's Dracula. The book kicks the movies ass.

Jen- What I wouldn't give to go to Pere Lachaise, I wrote a scene there in one of my novels. I just wish the bastards hadn't closed down the party at Morrison's tomb. They were supposed to surrender to the drunken revelers, that's how it goes.

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Posted 23 June 2004 - 11:24 PM

Ummm... blargh. Salome is in french I believe and unlike Oscar I'm not quadrilingual. Anyone know where I can find a non french version? My prefered price is somewhere between zero and negative ten dollars.

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