[Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) by Frank Harris]@TWC D-Link bookOscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) INTRODUCTION 2/34
These, too, I have naturally wished to use and so, to avoid confusion, have inserted them in italics and with his initials.
I hope the sequence will be clear to the reader. MY MEMORIES OF OSCAR WILDE BY BERNARD SHAW MY DEAR HARRIS:-- "I have an interesting letter of yours to answer; but when you ask me to exchange biographies, you take an unfair advantage of the changes of scene and bustling movement of your own adventures.
My autobiography would be like my best plays, fearfully long, and not divided into acts.
Just consider this life of Wilde which you have just sent me, and which I finished ten minutes ago after putting aside everything else to read it at one stroke. "Why was Wilde so good a subject for a biography that none of the previous attempts which you have just wiped out are bad? Just because his stupendous laziness simplified his life almost as if he knew instinctively that there must be no episodes to spoil the great situation at the end of the last act but one.
It was a well made life in the Scribe sense.
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