dis2@houxm.UUCP (A.NESTOR) (12/20/83)
W. S. Gilbert, as so often, has words on this subject:
An attachment a la Plato
for a bashful young potato
or a, not too French, french bean
must excite your languid spleen.
For, if you walk down Picadilly
with a poppy or lily
in your medieval hand,
every one will say,
as you walk your flowery way;
"If this young man is content,
with a vegetable love
which would certainly not content me.
Why,, what a very pure young man
this pure young man must be!"
- Patience -
The subject of the humour is, of course, our own Oscar Wilde. This
was written before Oscar got caught "feasting with panthers". Of
course Oscar Wilde was one of 'those' gays who give 'us' gays such a
bad image and enflame ussusceptible homophobes!!
Creighton Clarkeasente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente) (12/30/83)
Actually, the model for Bunthorne in "Patience" by Gilbert & Sullivan is not Oscar Wilde as so many people suppose but James Whistler. At the time of Patience Oscar was not quite so <insert appropriate adjective here> as some of the other aesthetic artists. -paul asente ...decwrl!asente