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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 27, 2011, 02:37:44 pm ---I read and enjoyed both. Though I also thought the Badinter piece was kind of all over the place; when I finished I wasn't sure I had a really cohesive idea of what Badinter's main points are. I would have liked a tiny bit less objectivity, too -- perhaps more of Kramer's analysis of the ideas.
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My thoughts exactly! Although I couldn't stop reading out of a fascination for the bizarre and disorganized. It was kind of like watching a bear run away, all disjointed like he's falling apart.
Jeff Wrangler:
I've read the Alex Ross piece on Oscar Wilde in the August 8 issue--makes me want to go back and reread The Picture of Dorian Gray to look for all the discreet gay allusions that I don't remember seeing when I read it years ago. ;D
Also makes me want to look up Alex Ross; apparently he's gay and married to his partner.
Anyway, what really fascinated me was to learn that Arthur Conan Doyle knew Oscar Wilde, and they both published in Lippincott's magazine, which was published here in Philadelphia--the Lippincott name endured in publishing for well over a hundred years, actually. I had never thought about Conan Doyle and Wilde moving in the same circles.
Front-Ranger:
If you had seen the new PBS Sherlock (I know, I know, you're not interested) the gay theme would rocket right out at you and you'd see Wilde's influence on Doyle!! Also, it's insightful to go back and read the original stories or watch the earlier TV versions after seeing the latest incarnation.
Jeff Wrangler:
Pooh! Sherlock Holmes and John Watson ain't queer. ... ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 07, 2011, 09:40:15 pm ---Pooh! Sherlock Holmes and John Watson ain't queer. ... ;D
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Nobody's business but theirs. ;D
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