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very little faces beaming up at me I wanted to throw a huge love blanket over all of you and it made me so it's incredibly great
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busy as as Lord Alfred was nicknamed it was definitely because he had a Jeep I'm sure you will have Jeep
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is in your rooms in college no that's Cambridge sorry scouts you have you have a scout from bless you is it just going on like a tennis match
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the gentleman would change their under
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about 2 or 3 times a week and their shirts and collars about 2 or 3 times a day but
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Queensbury Who
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absolutely
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in fact it's an odd statistic that during the 19th century more theatres were built
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the last forever except The Importance of Being Earnest there's a new Victorian masterpieces except that
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the marks of Queensbury went round backstage with rotten cabbages and tomatoes and things he was going to throw on stage at the end he was barred by the state's dormant have been
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two Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite
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when wild went to the club the next day he was given this card he opened it and read it now do you mean someone writing to Oscar
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Lord
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who was then Foreign Secretary and Queensbury was Madden by the fact that he couldn't get it Lord queensberry because Lord queensberry was too powerful
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that Jew queer Rosebery called him rosemary became Prime Minister the Prime Minister just before Salisbury I think he's 20
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and Queensbury saw his chance he may not be able to get Rosebery
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what causes eldest son Francis to commit suicide but he could get this Irish nobody who had no place in Society
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and the testimony was so shocked European audiences involved the stains on bed linen for us is almost unimag
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even today to think this is these things are raised in court to a Victorian who never read these things in newspapers the whom these things were never
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with Lord Beecham who famously was the model of Lord March man in that absolutely unbeatable Oxford novel Brideshead Revisited which
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Sebastian flyte and who dies a drunkenness and it's a
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because the police were on his heels King George V was King at the time memorably said I thought men Like That shot themselves
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he awaited events
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kinds of world literature
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where felons and criminals dwell we must ask you to come with us quietly for this is the Cadogan Hotel
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which in my opinion is not nearly harsh enough you must go to prison
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extraordinary strongman to Dublin a group of rugby players to come to break up his famous collection of blue and white China
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I don't need to be retold so it is in fact just passed his 160th birthday he died in November the 1900
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quietly into my room I shall make you
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toast with anchovy butter and tell you stories little meatly went up and listening telling stories sitting by the fire was the unbelievably captivating
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congratulated for first using the word homosexual in his book Kindle where he's using it in
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specific gender or sex
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which is of course not necessarily how we will anyone of us would have been whether girls straight if we've been born 200 years ago that's not attractive person I really would love
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probably know he was Irish his father sir William Wilde was an ophthalmic surgeon and poet
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generally wrong so suddenly you're a noun instead of a verb and as the philosophy Hume
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it gets a sort of underlining with pretentious but it's still pretty cool concrete Flux independent rating intensities
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that's what we all are verbs we happen we don't we're not nouns even tables or process being a table stab
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demons and they were tormenting priest Monk and he wants them
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and was the ophthalmic surgeon surgeon royal which meant should the odd occasion arrived where
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turn off it him love knowledge we have offered him everything but he stays true to his church he is truly a man of God for
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9 Days and 39 nights we have tempted to still he holds fast and the devil said out of the way and he whispered in the monks here
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gardeners church filling the air with the most vile hideous for fame speech and the Demons bow down is it truly
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what can you have said in 5 seconds when we had tried 39 days and 39 nights you said oh it was very simple I merely told him that his brother
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play reflect the human spirit but I want to go back to wild dying in Paris and I'm sorry
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slowly to gain a name for himself and a fantastic Jacob Epstein sarcophagus is erected at Pearl of shares Cemetery the great Cemetery of
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philosophers and of course most famously if you like your rock and roll Jim Morrison of The Doors
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if you're going down 5th Avenue which is one of the avenues that goes downtown as opposed to up like it's neighbours Madison
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was the tallest building in the world the Empire State Building
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to Trinity College Dublin which is where all Protestants went if they were of any sort of ambition and ability in a
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unlike most British traffic lights American traffic lights are beautiful synchronised so once you hit
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and the pigments were regarded is great names with completely forgotten now people who wrote plays called things like the second Mrs Tanqueray
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no orchids for Miss blandish things like that plays a very rarely performed except as a joke and he himself
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ignore me and when I first started doing that the posters on the wall you almost could go with your eyes shut you knew what that be
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Karl Marx that one with a huge bushy beard maybe John Lennon the imagine cover
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maybe Lenin maybe Jimi Hendrix and
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Berlin Wall United you know the United States of the Soviet Union that the Warsaw pact as it was known
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so instead I started to notice the tumours common figures to be on the walls no I know it's just in beaver so it's a whole different deal
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the most common figures to be on the walls of a student's rooms would be Albert Einstein an Oscar Wilde
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different titles by Brian Cox we still don't really get it and it's no good being enthusiastic we don't speak
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humanitarian face of Einstein's either the one with his
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ever is the most highly priced thing we have who would have thought by the 21st century the Freedom of thought was even up for questioning but it is
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is that you fail to acquire what is sometimes called the Oxford Manor which I take to mean the ability to play Grace
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with ideas the ability to play gracefully with ideas isn't that a magnificent thing do you think you've got that
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31 stone on the left and on the right is Oscar usually that tinnies with green photograph of melancholy full lipped face
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did you realise when you're told you you know for a fact that after Shakespeare he is in many many countries the most translated in red English
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king of Bohemia that land you should never ever leave the land that all students are issued a visa to when they go through the gates of their University
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saying this is the
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a lawn mower it's the moment you die inside we don't want that of you to sparkly and twinkly
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Oscar is the prince of all students the Student Prince so hold this
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yellow oxonian very dear in your hearts thank
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famous famous in the British press famous all over the country and even in the continent not because it written anything particularly extraordinary
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and he then did you still have vivers here yeah those of you don't
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live voice it's a kind of examination which isn't written down the way
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he was doing this
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this examination and you had to show that you were familiar not just with classical Greek attic Greek as they call it but also with New Testament Greek the New Testament is I'm
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an explosion of promise and he was going to become a politician this is what everybody's view was and he would be the most brilliant politician of his day he would make Israeli the only person
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compare him with also a flamboyant Dandy who made this really look possibly positively in a mothball and he arrived
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met this woman Constance Lloyd actually beautiful wonderful intelligent perfect soulmate and they married and and then a very
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anything happened Gilbert and Sullivan now much less celebrated they were in their own time wrote one of the operators and it's called patience
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play for the way he dressed a bit like Malcolm McLaren way before you were born was in about 1974
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who ran the Savoy opera companies it was called and called Survivor because it's quite
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and the Savoy Hotel is the most modern extraordinary hotel in the world at the time it had lifts it had a
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where is the chef it had the most remarkable Oscar in the bum in the horrible way but at the time Richard dolly part was an incred
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if you had anything to declare he said I have nothing to declare except my genius and he was asked by Americans were very curious about their own country and the way Britain
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violent deadly war that has ever been waged terms of deaths horrible thought all civil wars so
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yes I am looking at you by Ben venuto shalini the famous
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10% in gold I'm sure you know the one you know it of course you do anyway he was a remarkable man Chile and he wrote his own autobiography he was a criminal he was an extraordinary figure and
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he went down a silver mine in leadville Colorado and he held the Miners in
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can we talk to this
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who shot him is believed by one of his best biographies Richard Hillman
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who is the younger younger son
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play the did just composed
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call salome Richard written for Sarah Bernhardt the greatest actress of a day though to be perfectly force her about because he says in the forward of the translation
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play foreign actor or actress would be the work of an artisan not an artist so here we go himself naturally as an artist but Al
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what does had no inhibitions he had the full cruel absolute garnish self-confidence of the Victorian
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it was utterly without concealment which is quite admirable in some ways he was utterly without shame she's also admirable in some ways he was actually
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the vacations and they became lovers and the word harm
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the Abominable crime of buggery had been on the statute books for hundreds of years and around this time only 10 years earlier had been a motion in Parliament called the
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chair amendment which was passed which was actually a law against prostitution which at the last minute hand sort of sort of slipped into it a law against
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indecent behaviour between those between men actually not between women at all because it is rumour though never substantiated the Queen Victoria
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