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Original paragraph in
The Star - Saturday, May 25, 1895
The Star - Saturday, May 25, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
The Tuapeka Times - Wednesday, May 29, 1895
The Tuapeka Times - Wednesday, May 29, 1895
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Mr Labouchere, editor of London Truth, who has known Oscar Wilde for years, says he has always regarded him as somewhat wrong in his
head. "So strange and wondrous is his mind, remarks that observant editor, when in an abnormal condition, that it would not surprise me if he were
deriving keen enjoyment from, a position which most people whether 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 prison may not be pleasant to him, but I believe the notoriety that has overtaken him has such a charm for him that it outweighs
everything else. I remember in the early days of the cult of aestheticism hearing him asked how a man of his undoubted capability could make such a fool
of himself. He gave this explanation: He had written, bh said, a book of poems. In vain he went from publisher to published 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, and 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 the M.S."
Mr Labouchere, in 'Truth,' says that he has always regarded Oscar Wilde as somewhat "wrong in the head." "So strange and wondrous is his
mind," remarks the observant editor of 'Truth,' "when in an abnormal condition, that it would not surprise me if he were deriving keen enjoyment from a
position which most people, whether 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 pleasant to him, but I believe the notoriety that has overtaken him has such a charm for him that it outweighs everything else. I remember in the early
days of the cult of asceticism hearing Mr St. George ask him how a man of his undoubted capability could make such a fool of himself. He gave this
explanation: He had written, he said, a book of poems; in vain he went from publisher to publisher asking them to bring them out, for 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 asceticism, which
caused people to talk about him and to invite him to other houses as a sort of lion. He then took him poems to a publisher, who, still without reading
them, gladly accepted the M.S."