[Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) by Frank Harris]@TWC D-Link bookOscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) CHAPTER XXVII 138/141
They certainly always look it.
I hope some notice will appear, as your paper, or rather yourself, is a great force in London and when you speak men listen. I of course feel that the poem is too autobiographical and that real experience are alien things that should never influence one, but it was wrung out of me, a cry of pain, the cry of Marsyas, not the song of Apollo.
Still, there are some good things in it.
I feel as if I had made a sonnet out of skilly, and that is something. When you return from Monte Carlo please let me know.
I long to dine with you. As regards a comedy, my dear Frank, I have lost the mainspring of life and art--_la joie de vivre_--it is dreadful.
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