"I'm very fond of being looked at," she says in answer to her new nearsighted friend's request to look at her through glasses. We could be in the exitless abyss with Sartre's anti-heroine of the mirror. But we are with Wilde. Nearsightedness was part of mama's system of down-bringing. One is not born woman; one becomes second sexed. Meaning brims amidst jokes in almost every scene, of repenant aspect, or most civilized. "We are obviously talking about the same person," matron trills.
"It's perfectly absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't read. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." Wilde is wild about aphorisms. Glory is a hoar. Don't underestimate the importance however. Earnest may be a double double entendre but is thus just the thing to answer this serious charge of being.
"It's perfectly absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't read. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." Wilde is wild about aphorisms. Glory is a hoar. Don't underestimate the importance however. Earnest may be a double double entendre but is thus just the thing to answer this serious charge of being.
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