As a piece of evidence it proved, many respects, to be my downfall; to make sure that it could no longer be denied that I was, according to the standards of the society in which I lived and whose morals I was so concerned with exposing. Indeed, it is not even decent... and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. Gregorio Pando Poez brings Marc Anthony to life in Julius Caesar. I put those words into the mouth of Jack, in The Importance of Being Earnest. Here are the monologues! Certainly, into the mouths of Henry, Basil and Dorian I found myself putting thoughts that had, at times occurred to me, but at the same time I cannot say that I saw this as simply the only point of my activity. Melanie Fuertes tells us of "The Gratitude List" by Gabriel Davis. When I would have my hapless moral lovers state 'The dead are dancing with the dead' (ibid). Rather, so much of what I wrote revolved around a combined sense of freshness and tiredness that I would find the in the world. Please wait while we process your payment.
Needless to say, I also think on the novel as something as something of a superior ghost story. These elements of her personality make her a perfect mate for Algernon. I repeat them now because at times this was precisely the kind of boredom that I found myself confronting, both within myself and within those whom I knew in London and outside it. Jordan Saxby delivers a killing monologue straight out of Gotham City: The Killing Joke by Brian Azzarello, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore. Lucia Vallaro and her wonderful excuse to go to dinner. The cure the body by means of the soul and the soul by the means of the body: this is what I had wanted to show in the novel, the necessary dualism of life and the world that we live in meant that true happiness could only be pursued by a few. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play, and she is the only character who does not speak in epigrams.
It was as much to demonstrate the paucity of the life led in the open, as much as it was to show genuine moral concern. Though she does not have an alter-ego as vivid or developed as Bunbury or Ernest, her claim that she and Algernon/Ernest are already engaged is rooted in the fantasy world she's created around Ernest. I wanted my art to be something more. Perhaps, it reminds me slightly of a poem that a wrote: The Harlots House. She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. She is a child of nature, as ingenuous and unspoiled as a pink rose, to which Algernon compares her in Act II.
Camila Ledo tells us about dystopian Far Away, by Carol Churchill. Vicky Iolster in pours her romantic heart out in Sonnet 18 – Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Still, if I had to introduce the novel in order to reflect on it now I would describe it as something of a contradiction. Of course, I was knew of the danger of sensual indulgence, both for the soul and for the body, but I didn't think people would take prudishness seriously, especially not from me. Hugo Halbrich in a sincere, heartfelt rendition of The Song of Wandering Aengus by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. By this, I do not mean, of course, that I wished to teach anything or to be didactic in any kind of way. I now look at my novel as the attempt to show that what it might mean for this to pursued in all of its possibility, and of course what that itself might need in order to even be a possibility at all.
As my only novel, I suppose that some must consider it to be a life's work in some way, or at least to contain all that it was that I considered most important. Andrew Cobb tells us it's Your Move, Chief as Dr. Sean, Good Will Hunting, written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. I remember saying once that 'most people simply exist' and that to live is truly an exceptional thing (1998, 1). Simon Chater offers us Cyrano's "nose speech" from the TV adaptation (1985) of Cyano de Bergerac, a play by Edmond Rostand.
More than anything, I would say that my novel, my Dorian was my attempt to give life to these contradictory impulses. It was an attempt to make art live in and for itself, not simply as it exists in and through things. Like Algernon and Jack, she is a fantasist. Sam Gilbert and the School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Rather, I wanted to seriously consider the soul in its forms as it was found in our contemporary age, and to do so by studying what could make it great and what could make it depraved. To do so, I urge only that you use both your soul, and the body that encases it. For what is art without that little prick of fright? It is necessary to understand something about my work before being able to explain this fully. All social life, it seemed, was performance. Ana Aldazabal shows she knows her dodos, in this portrayal of Eve from Eve's Diary by Mark Twain. If Gwendolen is a product of London high society, Cecily is its antithesis.
Written by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. London: Penguin, 2012. Nonetheless, my satires were well known enough that I did not expect anyone to take my novel too seriously, or at least, not to feel as if they could entirely trust me.