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Original paragraph in
The Yorkshire Evening Post - Wednesday, April 10, 1895
The Yorkshire Evening Post - Wednesday, April 10, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
Bristol Mercury - Thursday, April 11, 1895
Bristol Mercury - Thursday, April 11, 1895
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In Truth, Mr. Labouchere, writing about Oscar Wilde, says:—"I have known him, off and on, for years. Clever and witty he unquestionably
is, but I have always regarded him as somewhat wrong in the head, for his craving after notoriety seemed to me a positive craze. There was nothing that he
would not do to attract attention."
OSCAR IN NEW YORK.
"When Wilde went over to New York he went about dressed in a bottle-green coat with a waist up to his shoulders. When be entered a
restaurant people threw things at him. When he drove in the evening to deliver his lectures the windows of his carriage were broken, until a policeman
rode on each side of it. Far from objecting to ail this, it filled him with delighted complacency. 'Insult me, throw mud at me, but only look at me,'
seemed to be his creed."
HIS PASSION FOR NOTORIETY.
So strange aud wondrous is Wilde's mind when in an abnormal condition, that it would not surprise me (continues Truth) if he were
deriving a keen enjoyment from a position which most people, whether really innocent or guilty, would prefer to die rather than occupy. He must have known
in what a glass-house he lived when he challenged investigation in a court of justice. After he had done this he went abroad. Why did he not stay, abroad?
The possibilities of a prison may not be pleasing to him, but I believe that the notoriety that has overtaken him has such a charm for him, that it
outweighs everything else.
WHY WILDE TOOK TO AESTHETICISM.
In the early days of the cult of aestheticism some one asked Oscar Wilde how a man of his undoubted capacity could make such a fool of
himself. He gave this explanation. He had written, he said, a book of poems, and he believed in their excellence. In vain he went from publisher to
publisher asking them to bring them out; not one would even read them, for he was unknown. In order to find a publisher he felt that he must do something
to become a personality. So he hit upon aestheticism. It succeeded. People talked about him; they invited him to their houses as a sort of lion. He then
took his poems to a publisher, who—still without reading them—gladly accepted them.
I remember in the early days of the cult of aestheticism, hearing someone ask him how a man of his undoubted capacity could make such a
fool of himself. He gave his explanation. He had written, he said, a book of poems, and he believed in their excellence. In vain he went from publisher to
publisher asking them to bring them out; not one would even read them, for he was unknown. In order to find a publisher he felt that he must do something
to become a personality. So he hit upon aestheticism. It succeeded. People talked about him; they invited him to their homes as a sort of lion. He then
took his poems to a publisher, who—still without reading them—gladly accepted them.
EPIGRAMS FOR THE WARDERS?
Oscar Wilde, according to the prison authorities, neither eats, drinks, nor sleeps. He is extremely talkative, and gives vent to load
denunciations of the manner in which he has been treated, of the discomfort of his special room, and of the manner in which he is watched night and day.
He has been deprived of knife and fork, and the extra precaution has been taken of removing all glass vessels and even the looking-glass, from his room. A
considerable supply of reading matter has been forwarded to him.
A POINT-BLANK REFUSAL.
It is understood that an application for bail-money made by a friend of Wilde's to a gentleman mixed up in one of his theatrical
speculations was, on Friday night last, met by a point-blank refusal.