Miscellanies

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our critic has fallen in his review of my story, The Pictu

s that I do not know what 'vamping' is. I see, from time to time, mysterious advertisements in the newspapers about 'How to Vam

hat, so far from wishing to emphasise any moral in my story, the real trouble I experienced in writing t

h I have given new form-I felt that, from an ?sthetic point of view, it would be difficult to keep the moral in its proper secondary place; and even now I

a moral. The real moral of the story is that all excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its punishment, and this moral is so far artistically and deliberately suppressed that it does not enun

anity, he had considered his first good action. Dorian Gray has not got a cool, calculating, conscienceless character at all. On the contrary, he is extremely impulsive, absurdly romantic, and is haunted all through his life by an exaggerated sense of conscience which mars hi

y contains no learned or pseudo-learned discussions, and the only literary books that it alludes to are books that any fairly educated reader may be supposed to be acquainted with, such as the

action against the crude primaries of a doubtless more respectable but certainly less cultivated age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality o

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