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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
He should have ignored the Marquess of Queensberry's mis-spelled insult (hand-written on a visiting card) and that would have been the end of it. There was no public danger to his reputation until the Marquess won the lawsuit and turned the evidence over to the Crown.
The Marquess of Queensberry was an idiotic self-promoter, whose famous rules, by the way, made boxing a more dangerous sport than it was, but that's another story. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-Oscar Wilde It takes one to know one.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Oscar Wilde is a very poor choice to point out discrimination against gays.
He was undoubtedly brilliant and I love his work, but the campaign to rehabilitate his character over the last century has focused on his being homosexual when from memory he was convicted of corrupting underage boys. All his grand statements about 'the love that dare not speak it's name' were intended to focus attention on his relationship with the vile Bosie - a spoilt brat into his old age. No mention of the fact he used his money and position to get sex from destitute kids. |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Hi Destiny,
You were right to mention that the increase in personal freedoms and liberties in the West has been accompanied by the rapid disappearance, in Britain and America, at least, of stable families ("we never worked out how to compensate for the lessened emphasis on parenting and are paying a huge price for it"). Many forms of social and personal suffering, including criminality and self-destructive drug abuse, are directly and positively associated with the absence of a loving father in a child's home. The anomie and alienation so prevalent in so much of contemporary popular -and high- culture is also a reflection of the shattered family. It is unfortunate that trillions of dollars have been spent, and continue to be spent, on government programs which enable and promote this phenomenon. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Oscar Wild had a wife and two little boys and I think he got what he deseved for what he did to them. I am surprised his wife did not kill him.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Interesting thoughts on changes in our culture from a retired professor of medieval literature:
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I stepped out into the early Sunday morning gloom, already ominous with the threat of the impending humid heat that I could feel coming up from the blacktop driveway, to pick up the paper, and immediately retreated to the cool of the kitchen. I made myself a mug of tea and sat at the kitchen table with the front page spread before me. The large article that caught my eye was “Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’.” The article is about two mothers of young children in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The women are work colleagues and friends. The author, Jason de Parle, has written very ably about issues of poverty in this country. In this article he uses the two women to exemplify some general patterns of contemporary society. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Was this quoted author attempting humor?
IMHO he touches on some economic and social factors that I'd agree are significant in the dialog. IMHO his "ain't it awful" winge is not even specious. Has he been called on any of it where it was published?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Hi Jonathan,
Certainly there is humor in what he has to say. He published these thoughts on a little blog that he updates once a week. You can find it at the link. You might also be interested in David Gelernter's thoughts about the "cultural revolution" in America since 1960, which you can find in an interview, here. |
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