The impurity of the blog is akin to how the English have often thought of the Irish - as impure, dirty, uncivilized, not quite English. In his book INVENTING IRELAND, which is one of the best of its kind, Declan Kiberd argues that Ireland has long served as England's subconscious, the place, and the people, to which an Englishman or Englishwoman might ascribe fantasies, supernatural beliefs, sexual desires, uncouth habits, etc. that are socially unacceptable (but no less real for being so). In some ways, Oscar Wilde's determination to become more "English" than the English themselves is a mockery of this tendency. This is something we might talk about today. Thanks for defiling the blog, Andy.
The impurity of the blog is akin to how the English have often thought of the Irish - as impure, dirty, uncivilized, not quite English. In his book INVENTING IRELAND, which is one of the best of its kind, Declan Kiberd argues that Ireland has long served as England's subconscious, the place, and the people, to which an Englishman or Englishwoman might ascribe fantasies, supernatural beliefs, sexual desires, uncouth habits, etc. that are socially unacceptable (but no less real for being so). In some ways, Oscar Wilde's determination to become more "English" than the English themselves is a mockery of this tendency. This is something we might talk about today. Thanks for defiling the blog, Andy.
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