From larus@kim.Berkeley.EDU Mon Jun 9 19:30:31 1986 Received: by dali.Berkeley.EDU (5.51/1.11) id AA17933; Mon, 9 Jun 86 19:30:28 PDT Received: by kim.Berkeley.EDU (5.51/1.14) id AA08962; Mon, 9 Jun 86 19:30:22 PDT From: larus@kim.berkeley.edu (James Larus) Message-Id: <8606100230.AA08962@kim.Berkeley.EDU> To: spur-is@kim.Berkeley.EDU, fateman@kim.Berkeley.EDU, braver@kim.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Wilde Quote Date: Mon, 09 Jun 86 19:30:20 PDT Status: RO I stumbled across this quote in Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and could not resist passing it on. The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of @i(argot) and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate para- phrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes. /Jim