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[rm]

Since I neglected to post this in any way remotely public - I'm celebrating my birthday by hanging out at Rose's Turn tonight, from about 9pm on. Feel free to drop by and add to the hilarity or what have you.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Dude! I'm just amazed you can type!

[lawnrrd]

Of course I can type: I have pudding, after all.

And I thought of you while in the hospital. I started to read The Picture of Dorian Gray, which is the first Wilde I have ever read. I seem to remember also that you once posted a picture of yourself dressed as Wilde for Halloween, and the picture on the front of the book reminds me of that remembered picture.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I've never dressed as Wilde for Halloween, although my mother told me often enough I looked like him as a child. Oi, mom! Anyway, it's very much a product of its times, and as suc is nearly unreadable for a lot of epople, but it has some gorgeous moments. What do you think?

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I don't know why I remembered it, then, although I can always blame the morphine.

I didn't get very far in the book yet, and I'll blame the morphine for that, too. I find Lord Henry absolutely fascinating, but Dorian's merely a beautiful blank slate. I'm interested to see where the setup goes, but, stylistically, I'm surprised by how hard it's been to read.