written and posted by members of Lancashire Dead Good Poets' Society

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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

It's all in the picture

Due to a very heavy workload I will be covering for Cerrie this week.


Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Grey shocked a society when it was first published in 1890 as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine itself censored over 500 words from the original because they were deemed to be too much. Though most of the outrage was because the scenes of the debauchery depicted acted more like a mirror to the higher order and served as confirmation of actions to those living in the less fortunate world. 

In 1891 Wilde removed some of the more controversial passages, added a couple of chapters and did some major rewrites to create the book form that is so well known today.

What most people don't realise about A Picture of Dorian Grey is how much of it is based on reality. Not all the sordid frightfulness, we all know what the other half get up to in the quiet of their own Buckingham Palace. It's the painting, the picture, the wearer of the sins that is real.

Yes I know it sounds too amazing to be true however, I have located the pictures held in the attics of some well known politicians and when you see them you will understand how these people maintain such a normal looking face with all the wrong they do.

First up is Dep. Prime Minister Nick Clegg.


Then the main man himself, David Cameron 

But the most compelling evidence that pictures are are being kept to hide the effects of sins from an evil doing person is this one of Margaret Thatcher.
It was removed from her attic 1 week before she passed. As you can see, there was a lot of sin to catch up with.

Monday, 9 December 2013

Oscar

08:42:00 Posted by Colin Daives , , , , 1 comment
If only there was time to see everybody all the time, then nobody could judge anybody else for being a fool. 

This is not a quote, I couldn't remember one so I tried to think of what Oscar Wilde, one of the great wits and observers of times gone by, would have said looking back on this life from this distance. 

His life is one of fascination for being so different to our own today and yet connects with us because on the unfairness that brought about his downfall.

Oscar

Wilde are the dreams
Ageing picture still not seen
Imagine the paper cut
Words used to draw last blood

Wilde are the thoughts
Beauty gazed upon in open court
Dracula's sire taking your love
Words remembered are but enough

Wilde are the journeys
Worlds absorbed through minds attorney
The importance of friends advice royal
Words against actions foolishly ignored 

Wilde are the accusations
Truth of ones soul lies forsaken
Undeniable the presence of another
Words betrayal of the lover

Wilde are the winds
Distant now the past life's sins
Broken like the rocks of hard labour
Words in stone mark your sleep