Re-posted from last year. Today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday (1854-1900). I fell under Wilde’s spell in the 1990s, so much so that I named my second son (Charles Wilde Stewart, b. 1998) after him. To be a comedian and critic, classicist, playwright, public personality and gadfly all at the same time — that seemed (and [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:17AM on October 16, 2012