/lit/ - Literature

I want to talk about Oscar Wilde with someone who knows more than what wikipedia says about him.

Through out my university career, few writer's biographies have captivated me as much as Wilde.

He was a genius and wordsmith, but lacked self-discipline--far too much of a hedonist, and it took him to be imprisoned for him to learn a lesson.

Now, the things he was imprisoned for, he would not be imprisoned now for. That being said, he would have never learned the importance of restraint and melancholy, but he most likely would have created some more works worth reading.

He was also genius in generating hype for his personality via the media (he was his own agent). It's fascinating to think that he got his start doing "lecturing tours" in America.

We have something like that today (TED talks), but it's not the same thing.

I'm willing to talk more about him, if anyone wants to throw in their two cents.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
I'm currently reading it and Snape (the author)'s persistent use of impossible metaphors is getting on my nerves. Either I'm too illiterate to get the metaphors or they're really impossible. Snape probably cast a spell on them or something I mean what the fuck

>I'm a Huge Orson Welles.

Well, I'm a huge Oscar Wilde.

Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it, by converting private property into public wealth, and substituting co-operation for competition, will restore society to its proper condition of a thoroughly healthy organism, and insure the material wellbeing of each member of the community. It will, in fact, give Life its proper basis and its proper environment.