The memory comes fast and furious like an Alabama storm. How I used to drive you to the trailer park past Plantation Hills so you could fuck men for 35 dollars a pop, migrant workers that lived two too many to a bedroom. Were you even 18 then? You’d give me 10 dollars to drive you; 20 if I said no and really meant it. A couple quick shooters and you could have enough to last the weekend. The best rocks were dense. Ribbed like slickrock, the moon rocks you buy at the hippy store, the ones me...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Abstract: La relazione tra letteratura inglese e musica è stata profondamente significativa nel corso dei secoli, intrecciando espressioni poetiche e sonore in un dialogo creativo. Dall’epoca elisabettiana, con il connubio tra lirica e musica nelle opere di Shakespeare e nei madrigali di John Dowland, fino alle sperimentazioni moderne di autori come T. S. Eliot … Continue reading Armonie di parole da Shakespeare a Wilde, e armonie e ritmi tra Joyce, Yeats e Woolf| Diacritica
Oscar Wilde? Gian Vincenzo Gravina? John D. MacDonald? Roger Ebert? Paul Gibson? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A clever person constructed the following definition: A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. This remark has been attributed to Irish wit Oscar Wilde, Italian man of letters Gian Vincenzo … Continue reading "Quote Origin: A Bore Is a Person Who Deprives You of Solitude Without Providing You with Company"| Quote Investigator®
Joseph Bristow— Gill: I daresay. there is another poem, described as “two Loves.” It contains these lines: “Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, dost thou rove These pleasant... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Oscar Wilde? Henry Wotton? Sibyl Vane? Louis T. Stanley? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the […] The post The Centerville Ghost appeared first on Fairytalez.| Fairytalez
Sentimental artworks, and the people who indulge in them, are disappointingly incurious about the emotions involved. If the emotions are rational, and if they inform our thinking and deliberation, they warrant critical scrutiny every bit as much as thought does. The post Newsletter: April 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ is the source of one of the less […]| Somewhere Boy
I’ve wanted to read ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde for a long time. Recently, one of my friends recommended it highly and so I thought I’ll pick it up and read …| Vishy's Blog
I have always adhered to Oscar Wilde’s dictum that “there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. However, after all the things that have been …| drmarkgriffiths
