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Today we're celebrating Oscar Wilde!
Born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, Oscar Wilde was an author, poet, and one of the most influential Dramatist in the early 1890's.
Despite being such a well known author, his arrest was described as "One of the first celebrity trials," and was imprisoned on charges of sodomy and gross indecency. His relationships with men were very well known and documented and was one of an estimated 50,000 men pardoned under the Alan Turing Law.
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“First thing in a crisis. Ancient times, soon as some major shit went down - war, famine, death of the Pharaoh - first thing you do, find a goat. Put all your shit on its head - fear, shame, iniquity, whatever you got - and you let it loose, out into the wilderness. Then you hunt it down, cut out its heart and burn it as an offering to the gods. Have you done that yet? Did I miss it?”
— Jez Butterworth, THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
Why can't we cry over our fictional characters?
Like honestly, we have seen thousands and millions of people crying over the death of an artist or an actor or some famous person.
You didn't know that person. You probably never interacted with this person. Then why do you shed your tears?
It is because these people have impacted your life some way or the other. You have probably watched them grow or you have grown up watching them.
It is the same with us. We have seen these characters grow or we have grown up with them. At times it is both.
These characters probably impact us even more because we know what goes inside their head. We have watched them bleed and claw their way out of hell. We have seen them carry their broken minds and bodies and stand on the victor's podium. We have even seen some of them die a step before they achieve their goals.
Some go on to have their happily ever afters. Some stand on the top but lose everything on their journey there.
We have not interacted with them like you have but they have been real to us just like your idol was real to you.
We both have been as close as possible to our respective idols.
The only difference is that yours exist in the same world as you.
So let's not be mean to each other. Let me share the joys and sorrows of my idol like you do to yours.
Let me mourn my idol how you have or will mourn yours.
Let's be kind to each other and not diss or look down on others for being happy or sad for someone that we will never be close to.
Let us revel in the emotions we have at this moment and live.
Dramatists, when they write their plays, have a delightful privilege of prefixing a list of their personages;—and the dramatists of old used to tell us who was in love with whom, and what were the blood relationships of all the persons. In such a narrative as this, any proceeding of that kind would be unusual,—and therefore the poor narrator has been driven to expend his first four chapters in the mere task of introducing his characters. He regrets the length of these introductions, and will now begin at once the action of his story.
Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
“If you’re thinking about something every day, you’re not really remembering it. It’s just there, like heartburn.” — James Ijames, FAT HAM
“Creativity is the supreme freedom.” — Anna Deavere Smith
Everything has a shadow, Peter Pan. Honestly you should have gone to Jungian analysis.
Sarah Ruhl, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday
