Despite the wonderful Collected Works of Oscar Wilde that I own, I spent some time last night typing up these sections from Dorian Gray, so that I could paste them somewhere to the back of my bedroom door (along with Jack Keroauc, a personalized anime drawing, some writing quotes, and lioness pictures), and review the lovely prose and philosophy.

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There was a production of Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband playing on TV yesterday afternoon, but I could only watch the first thirty minutes or so before dragging myself back to history texts.  Imagine--a sunny Sunday afternoon that should have been spent watching Wilde, maybe re-reading a bit of my favorite pieces...lost.  *mock sigh*

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I have never before experienced such quickness in writing- and not only that, but such intense desires to write something almost every minute of the day. The latest achievements? Another completed short story, which was finished in around thirty minutes- between midnight and one this morning. Final revisions to the poem written the other ( Read more... )