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bloodygranuaileOne of our dippy little multiple-choice reading comprehension prepping-for-AP-test thingies in English today was the beginning of Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying."
When we got the sheet the first thing I noticed was the character names, Cyril and Vivian. And I immediately went "Hey, Oscar Wilde's kids were named Cyril and Vyvyan! I wonder if this is a Wilde piece or of it's just a coincidence?" Then I started reading and it was just SO WILDEAN that I figured it had to be Wilde. Then I got to the end of the excerpt and found the line "everyone that is incapable of learning has gone into teaching," and I've definitely seen that quote a hundred times before. It's Oscar Wilde. So I asked Mrs. O. what piece it was from specifically, and when I came home I immediately tracked it down and read it. I have three volumes of Wilde's work, one at my dad's and two at my mom's, and I think I have everything he's ever written, and some stuff twice. Luckily I had "The Decay of Lying" in the book with the largest print, so that was nice.
"The Decay of Lying" is, essentially, an entertaining and prolonged dialogue about how realism is bad for art, and says everything I've said at Glyphs meetings all year except much funnier and more clearly.
In other news, have been toying with the idea of venturing further into the world of DIY fashion, and moving beyond "what can I do to this t-shirt with scissors and (sometimes) safety pins" and into the realms of dying clothing black myself because the girls-cargo-pants industry is just so not helpful in that department. It actually looks doable.
Also, I have a seven-minute-long 1969 St. Stephen on my iPod now, complete with the pipes bit at the end that usually gets left out. Yay for St. Stephen.
EDIT Just in case anybody cares, this is my 666th LJ entry.
When we got the sheet the first thing I noticed was the character names, Cyril and Vivian. And I immediately went "Hey, Oscar Wilde's kids were named Cyril and Vyvyan! I wonder if this is a Wilde piece or of it's just a coincidence?" Then I started reading and it was just SO WILDEAN that I figured it had to be Wilde. Then I got to the end of the excerpt and found the line "everyone that is incapable of learning has gone into teaching," and I've definitely seen that quote a hundred times before. It's Oscar Wilde. So I asked Mrs. O. what piece it was from specifically, and when I came home I immediately tracked it down and read it. I have three volumes of Wilde's work, one at my dad's and two at my mom's, and I think I have everything he's ever written, and some stuff twice. Luckily I had "The Decay of Lying" in the book with the largest print, so that was nice.
"The Decay of Lying" is, essentially, an entertaining and prolonged dialogue about how realism is bad for art, and says everything I've said at Glyphs meetings all year except much funnier and more clearly.
In other news, have been toying with the idea of venturing further into the world of DIY fashion, and moving beyond "what can I do to this t-shirt with scissors and (sometimes) safety pins" and into the realms of dying clothing black myself because the girls-cargo-pants industry is just so not helpful in that department. It actually looks doable.
Also, I have a seven-minute-long 1969 St. Stephen on my iPod now, complete with the pipes bit at the end that usually gets left out. Yay for St. Stephen.
EDIT Just in case anybody cares, this is my 666th LJ entry.
Da Debil
Date: 2006-04-18 05:29 am (UTC)DEBIL COME OUT!!!