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Art And The Handicraftsman By Oscar Wilde Reprinted from Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde, London: Methuen and Co., 1908. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fragments of which this lecture is composed are taken entirely from the original manuscripts which have but recently been discovered. It is not certain that they all belong to the same lecture, nor that all were written at the same period. Some portions were written in Philadelphia in 1882. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PEOPLE often talk as if there was an opposition between what i

To all my wonderful friends on dA:To my shagrin,my participation in this most interesting and colorful scene is drawing to a close,or at least is getting much reduced as to it's frequency.This poor laptop is faltering,and,i fear,is about to go the way of all flesh.For(as a very good friend finally explained to me),the little cyborg,that dwells within it,is just too frail,too good,for this cruel,cruel reality i inhabit.What with the dust,and the assorted spills of slop,the soot and ashes from the woodstove,and,the final straw-my recent overindulging in whiskey,and spending the night elsewhere,while the temperature of the cabin went down,and st

 "...`The River,' corrected the Rat.   `And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!'   `By it and with it and on it and in it,' said the Rat. `It's brother and sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and drink, and (naturally) washing. It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together! Whether in winter or summer, spring or autumn, it's always got its fun and its excitements. When the floods are on in February, and my cellars and basement are brimming with drink that's no good to me, and the brown water runs