OSCAR WILDE STATUE LONDON
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Thank you very much for posting this video I cannot help being fascinated by SUCH AN AMAZING WRITER WHOSE WRITINGS STILL MAKING OUR LIVES LESS ORDINARY...difficult to believe that he died alone and penniless...What a tragic ending to someone SPECIAL..
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Oscar Wilde, thank you for your dynamic contributions to world literature.
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Please do not call Wilde 'homosexual' for this is a barbaric term. He was...so to say 'sensible', 'different'. That same 'difference' wich is allowed to share the unnamed and silent quality of Undared Love.....
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Quite great to honnour Wilde...but look in detail; those dustbin containers not far.....look rather unrealistic not to say inconvenient !
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thankyou for posting this clip.oscar wilde was a great man,what a sad end he had.
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I think it was clever of Hambling to make it resemble a coffin. After all, it was England's barbarity that killed him. He was tortured by the state for political reasons. There weren't homosexuals in positions of great power at the same time, yet it was the these same people allowed him to be sentenced. Corrupt cowards.
It is still the ONLY public monument to Wilde in the UK and it is basically hidden down a side street, not on the main path to or from anywhere.
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Except when it is not recognised, or mistaken for madness.
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I think that artist was absolutly brilliant to bring everything that wilde was about and keep it going!!! you almost wish the sculpt heads eye could wink!!!!
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"from my.."
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I have nothing to declare apart I'm a genius.
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(continued) I did not know how to respond; of course I know who Oscar Wilde was, but I had no idea why what we were doing provoked a comment like that. I began to wonder if it was in fact some sort of tomb (because of its shape) that we were disrespecting, but I thought surely his body was not there on a London sidewalk!
Can anyone shed some light on why a passing stranger would have been offended by our actions?
showmehowudisco 3 years ago
What you did was what was intended with the memorial. I imagine that the gentleman who frowned on you was not a friend of Oscar's!
"It is called A Conversation with Oscar Wilde and depicts the head and shoulders of the Irish playwright carved in bronze, rising out of what looks like a granite coffin. The "conversation" comes about because the coffin is also a bench for you to sit on and share a moment with the famous wit amidst the hubbub of central London."
beekay12 3 years ago