Friday, April 29, 2011




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18 comments:

Oldfool said...

"Of all the things I have lost in my life I miss my mind the most" is something I say often these days but back when I had a mind I loved being read to. In my youth I was a radio listener and there were plenty of dramas on that I would get completely wrapped up in.
Somewhere, sometime I stopped being able to concentrate on the stories in audio books. I seem to catch a phrase or an idea and wander off in my own story.
The last time I was so completely captured it was by Oscar Wilde and the reading of "The Ballad of Reading Gaul". It drove me to the depths of depression so much that I was actually weeping but I couldn't stop listening. I have not been capture so much since. I want to listen to it again but to tell you the truth I am afraid.
I have been hooked on Oscar Wilde since.

11:35
Gwen Buchanan said...

Thank you. OF, This will be absolutely next on my listening list... if you wept, I know I will for sure..
funny how language can twist us up in emotional conflicts in our minds..

...funny how Our eyes upon seeing particular things without the sound/language makes us feel differently than when Our ears hear things without the pictures.

12:23
Valerianna said...

Wise.... definitely.

13:07
Ruth said...

I saw Lady Windemere's Fan performed on stage at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. It was such a treat! I do love that quote of Wilde's from the play. I am not sure I can get my head around it, you know? I love to read your posts and look at your art.

13:09
Acornmoon said...

rather like the saying, "be careful what you wish for, for wishes sometimes come true".

14:48
Owen said...

Oh joy, you've opened up the comment box again; so nice to be able to leave a thought or two for you here. Absolutely love the lettering you've done here in your homage to Oscar Wilde, harmoniously beautiful.

Made me think of work by a calligrapher I've enjoyed over the years, Sheila Waters :

http://www.calligraphersguild.org/SheilaWaters.html

And speaking of Oscar, I don't know if you might have seen this a few months ago :

http://magiclanternshowen.blogspot.com/2010/11/earnest-mans-grave-30-november-1900.html

Be well

14:53
A Heron's View said...

Our nightly pleasure is to listen to the radio BBC 4x via the internet, especially for the stories and plays.
So very soothing before sleep.

16:57
helen said...

...and to think ~ today he would not have been persecuted so horribly.

Your calligraphy is gorgeous Gwen.

19:41
Guillaume said...

Ah Oscar Wilde, master of aphorisms. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a revelation to me.

19:57
Morna Crites-Moore said...

I have tried on several occasions to listen to a book while I work but I don't seem able. Either I get too focused on the work and the next thing I know I've missed all kinds of stuff, or I leave the room to get something and forget to pause the CD. But, I'll probably keep trying. :-)

21:57
Gwen Buchanan said...

Valerianna, ahhh.

Ruth, I guess people living very different lives would see that quote in very different ways.

Valerie, ...exactly... in a melancholic manner.

Thank you Owen, The post you did on Wilde is gorgeous.. I loved the kisses on the stone... That would have been an experience. so much emotion...

Heron's View, I love rituals...BBC 4x ... Thank you for the recommendation... I am going to love this!

Helen, Thank you so much.. it is sad to see how humans behave sometimes. how we react and respond...and why.

Guillaume, I remember when I met John , he had just finished reading Dorian Gray and he felt the same way.

Morna, I wonder if it depends on the readers... I have noticed how some keep me enraptured and others without that special quality just drift away and I find myself thinking up my own story..

08:17
sandy said...

lovely sketchbook drawing and i like the quote.

12:45
BumbleVee said...

....ain't it the truth.....

02:54
Gwen Buchanan said...

Thanks Sandy, send over some of that California sunshine...

Ah yes, BumbleVee.

16:37
herhimnbryn said...

He was right, wasn't he? Such a life he had...

Have you seen the film 'Wilde' with Stephen Fry as Oscar? It broke my heart.

10:12
Gwen Buchanan said...

No I have never seen it... Thanks so much for the recommendation.

...seems life was meant for people tougher than humans.

10:00
Deborah Carr said...

The real question...the hard question...is 'what do you really want?' It is harder to answer than we might think...

20:13
Gwen Buchanan said...

That is so true, Deborah, with every day, every minute and every changing moment that offers itself to us.

07:45

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