/lit/ - Literature

>Nearly 2013
>Not realising that Oscar Wilde was the coolest author
I shiggy diggy boppity lu

>>1820701
I didn't forget!

I recently got a cool one about him. Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde. Interesting stuff. But don't confine yourself to just his early, happy-go-lucky self. Read De Profundis or some of his essays on art. He is more than just fabulous and fatuous plays.

How about we just let language do as language does on the board that is ostensibly about literature?

Were there any other great Victorian playwrights?

>>1115328
Sounds promising.

Mine is Oscar Wilde...I really wish I was a man....

>>634297

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

All modes of government are failures... High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. To ask whether Individualism is practical is like asking whether Evolution is practical. Evolution is the law of life, and there is no evolution except towards Individualism. Where this tendency is not expressed, it is a case of artificially arrested growth, or of disease, or of death.

If the "Socialism" is Authoritarian; if there are Governments, then the last state of man will be worse than the first. Every man must be left quite free to choose his own work. No form of compulsion must he exercised over him. If there is, his work will not be good for him, will not be good in itself, and will not be good for others. And by work I simply mean activity of any kind...All association must be quite voluntary. It is only in voluntary associations that man is fine.
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. To ask whether Individualism is practical is like asking whether Evolution is practical. Evolution is the law of life, and there is no evolution except towards Individualism. Where this tendency is not expressed, it is a case of artificially arrested growth, or of disease, or of death.
- Oscar Wilde