*Ø* Blogmanac October 16, 1854 | Happy birthday, Oscar

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist and poet, born on October 16, 1854

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

1854 Oscar Wilde (d. November 30, 1900), Irish playwright, novelist and poet (The Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Grey).


Imagine, if you will, that the spirit of Walt Whitman mysteriously comes to life in an autographed first edition of his famous anthology, 'Leaves of Grass', in Oscar Wilde's personal collection.

Imagine, too, that the ghost of Whitman swears to make amends for a great injustice done to the Irish playwright -- the forced auctioning of Wilde's beloved library.

Imagine that book passing through several hands, all the while containing the outraged soul of the American poet, who swears:

"Walt Whitman shall not sleep"