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From the lord of the language: we don't have enemies but our friends don't like us. Moreover our society doesn't condemn the criminal, but condemns the dreamer. Do sociologists mirror or mend this?

He didn't want to be famous but notorious. And indeed his plays played out in spite of his believe that love doesn't speak of itself.

aha HERE'S the bit about his two good and evil rings - looked _everywhere_ for that last night, could not find it

Aww, picturing Oscar in modern San Francisco. Even if the pages about how right a prophet he was get a little fulsome.

V well-written, altho the author can never resist a bad pun, especially involving Oscar's name(s), which gets wearying. But a good corrective to Ellmann.