The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. 1890.
Still a life goal to go there.
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Something Wilde
Taken from Reuters
A Chicago-area woman wanted to return an overdue copy of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to the Chicago Public Library, but first she wanted to be sure she wouldn’t go to jail.
That’s because the book, a rare limited edition of the Oscar Wilde novel, was checked out in 1934. Harlean Hoffman Vision found it in her late mother’s possessions, with a Chicago Public Library stamp.
The library is conducting a rare three-week amnesty program for overdue items, and Vision figured this was her chance to return the book, said Ruth Lednicer, the library’s marketing director. The books was returned Thursday.
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Gay. Just really gay.
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (via lheanansidhe)
Oh dear. I desperately wanted to get a tattoo of this in a heart with daggers from about 7th through 10th grade.
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.
