Turning Wine Into Marsh-Water
Pearce, Joseph
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...This particular biography is certainly not concerned with Wilde's art, which is hardly surprising considering that his art almost invariably looks to the Joseph Pearce is author of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde (Ignatius Press, 2004) and is editor of the Saint Austin Review, or StAR, a journal of Catholic culture (www.staustinreview.com...
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...The biography doesn't care for Wilde's desire to "make straight" his life, only its own twisted purpose in keeping his life"bent," or as a reviewer in the London Times put it: "McKenna makes an impassioned case for re-gaying Wilde...
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...The last emperor of the Romans died in the melee at the land walls...
...Nor is the book interested in Wilde's lifelong quest for spiritual fulfillment and truth...
...By contrast, many of his modern admirers, Judas-like, have betrayed their Master with a kiss and have sold his Art for the price of a prostitute, or for the 30 pieces of silver to be made from gossiping about (male) prostitutes...
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...In the same letter to Lord Alfred Douglas in which Wilde spoke so plaintively of wine and marsh-water, he referred to the homosexuality that had been the bane of his life during the 1890s as his "pathology," his sickness...
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...Every great man nowadays has his disciples," Wilde wrote, "and it is always Judas who writes the biography...
...THOSE WHO KNOW WILDE WELL, know his works well...
...But Roger Crowley has done an admirablejob in creating a very readable and accurate account that provides the general reader with enough detail to understand and appreciate the history without getting bogged down in minutiae...
...McKenna's biography is so unconcerned with Wilde's art that none of the laudatory blurbs on the dust jacket even mention Wilde's literary achievement...
...Much of my moral obliquity is due to the fact that my father would not allow me to become a Catholic," he confided to a journalist...
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...After the scandal that brought about his downfall, Wilde remarked wistfully that his decision to turn his back on Rome as a young man was ultimately disastrous...
...You knew what my Art was to me," Wilde wrote from Reading gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, "the great primal note by which I had revealed, first myself to myself, and then myself to the world...
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...Clearly, any "re-gaying" of Wilde would be very much against his will...
...Indeed, Mehmet's armies made sure that he was not ignored in Europe...
...By ignoring Wilde's insistence that his Art was "the love to which all other loves were as marsh-water to red wine," McKenna's biography pours out the wine of Wilde's art as a libation to the marsh-water...
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...All the able-bodied male defenders of the Byzantine capital numbered barely 8,000...
...We are all in the gutter," says Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan, "but some of us are looking at the stars...
...The first sustained artillery barrage in history commenced on April 12, 1453, and after repelling several assaults, the city succumbed to a final all-out attack on May 29...
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...be one empire, one faith and one sovereignty in the world," he continued to allow open Christian worship at Constantinople (renamed Istanbul) and, despite being a brutal conqueror, encouraged the cosmopolitan nature of the city that exists to this day...
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...One of Giustiniani's party was even a Scotsman who, fortunately for the defenders, was skilled in mining and thwarted several Ottoman attempts to tunnel under the walls into the city...
...He also wrote in the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray that "those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming...
...Wilde desired to "cleanse his soul from sin," but this book is determined to keep it sinful and dirty...
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...Mehmet's successors continued the military advance against Europe until they were finally defeated at the gates of Vienna in 1683...
...The artistic side of the Church would have cured my degeneracies...
...Oscar Wilde must be turning in his grave at this smutty biography...
...There is no interest in Wilde's lifelong attraction to the Catholic Church and his desire for the peace that conversion would bring...
...The book revels in what it reveals...
...Put bluntly, the objective truth must surrender to the demands of the agenda at the queer heart of McKenna's work...
...It reminds one insistently of that inveterate swamp-dweller, Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings, who, despising the stars and hating the sun, grubs around in the dark, grunting gutturally in his quest for decaying flesh to guttle...
...Dorian Gray prefers the gutter and dies there in despair...
...John the Baptist, and is herself killed by one, Herod, for whom she is an object of lust...
...THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE served as a wake-up call to Europe...
...It shows him the ugliness of the gutter and points silently to the stars...
...His portrait, the mirror of his soul, the voice of his conscience, shows him the ugliness of his sin and calls him to continence...
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...Wilde's Dorian Gray is in the gutter and does his best to stay there...
...It lacks charm...
...Mehmet's armies came within site of Venice, and invaded southern Italy...
...His addiction to lust kills him as surely as it kills Salome...
...Clearly Wilde believed that his true self, his true value, was to be found in his art...
...this book is at pains to keep Him out...
...Decadence is desirable: the life of the shadows out of the sight of the sun, or the light of the stars...
...It is at home in the gutter...
...The defenders were a medieval version of the Rainbow Coalition— Greeks, Genoese, Venetians, Orthodox, Catholics, unionists...
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...in his plays, his fairy-stories, and in his poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in which his conversion whilst serving his two year prison term is recounted: And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone...
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...How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin...
...and those who know his works well know that his reception into the Catholic Church on his deathbed was the logical and theological consummation of his lifelong love affair with Christ and the Church...
...Putting together a smooth narrative of the battles, strategies, counter-strategies, raised hopes, and final collapse resulting in the fall of Constantinople is not an easy task...
Vol. 38 • December 2005 • No. 10
