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Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication. Oscar Wilde’s restored honour and Samuel Beckett’s swims. However, he did regularly swim across the narrows linking Upper Lough Erne and the Lower Lough, often in the company of his school contemporary, the future General Sir Charles Jones. I cannot think where the idea comes from that Samuel Beckett rowed every morning from Portora Royal School to Devenish island: the round trip would have taken a couple of hours at least and no biography of him mentions that he visited Devenish.
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I believe that in relatively recent and more enlightened times it has been restored to the honours board.
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Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. Get it UP (Trap Remix Mix) by Shelco Garcia, Oscar Wylde, Vegas Banger has a BPM of 78 and the key of F Major (Camelot: 2B). But below the glittering linguistic surface of his works, suggests Sos Eltis, lies an anarchic politics and a phenomenal analysis of power. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde cultivated an image of himself as an idle genius, dashing off masterpieces with a lazy brilliance. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. I was a pupil at Portora in the 1950s, and while it was generally known that Wilde had studied there, his name had been removed from the honours board and it wasn’t on any list of distinguished alumni. Oscar Wilde Quotes Celebrating Life and Love. The fact that many of his sexual conquests were underage ought at least to raise some eyebrows in today’s world, and surely would do so if Wilde had been heterosexual, but such behavior does not seem to have dulled the moral sheen that has been accorded him in our modern tendency to “celebrate” queer lives.Your article ( Enniskillen mounts Oscar Wilde tribute with flight of gold-leaf swallows, 15 October) says “for years you could only find his name on the Gold Medal Honours Board in the Great Hall of Portora Royal School”. And as Matthew Sturgis demonstrates in his exhaustively researched, enlightening and lively new biography of Wilde-a “definitive” biography if there ever was one-Wilde behaved with consistent recklessness and self-indulgence. His father, Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, was a noted eye-ear surgeon. No doubt the real Oscar Wilde was dignified some of the time, and certainly he deflected pain with graceful humor on many occasions, but that was not his characteristic pose: Just as often, he wept, drank and wallowed in self-pity. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. In the 1997 biofilm “Wilde,” Stephen Fry played the role on a single note of dignified forbearance, showing the disgraced author enduring the humiliations and rigors of his prison and post-prison years with high-minded stoicism.
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O tempora! O mores! A century later, and Wilde has risen to the rank of secular saint, a queer martyr. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that she never actually knew, but that whatever it was, it was dreadfully bad, worse than murder. He was also known for his wit, his flamboyance, and his trials and jail sentence for homosexual acts. In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny-this is circa World War I-asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Oscar Wilde’s literary reputation rests largely on his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and on his masterful comedies of manners Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).