Oscar Wilde - in context (III)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking for change.

Books I've actually finished lately: 93

Ellmann's biography of Wilde was one of the first big books I read (/finished), aged about 16.

From which event extends a trail of more-or-less predictable consequences...

Facebooks - VI

Collected Poems - Roger McGough
The Three Musketeers (and several of the sequels) - Alexandre Dumas        [in English, for the record]
The Complete MAUS - Art Spiegelman
Consider The Lobster: and other essays - David Foster Wallace
The Unquiet Grave - 'Palinurus' (Cyril Connolly)
Complete Works - Oscar Wilde [the poetry is mostly terrible, but I                didn't know that then]
Whale (or any other) Adventure - Willard Price
Translations - Brian Friel
Regeneration / The Eye in the Door / The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
'Books v. cigarettes' - George Orwell

Oscar Wilde - in context (again*)

Swallow, swallow, little swallow - as I said to YOUR MUM last night!

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* for Dominic Hilton

Oscar Wilde - in context

I believe God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. And vice versa.

InDefinition - 65

Wilderness, n. a period of bad, florid poetry written in one's mid- to late-teenage years (that one will later attempt to disown)