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Request and food for thought

From: lionhart@netlink.cts.com (Jackie Zucconi)
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1992 23:14:03 -0700
Subject: Request and food for thought
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

First, I would like to request that someone tape the BBC show that Kate's 
going to be in (Kate in a mega jam!!) and them E-mail me to work out details 
of sending me a copy....thanks I would greatly appreciate it.
  
OK, food for thought time. Everyone comments now and then on Kate's liking 
of Oscar Wilde's work but there's a coincidence that no one's made mention 
of yet. Kate's "Symphony in Blue" v. Wilde's "Symphony in Yellow." Just to 
let you all ponder the eerie, and what I think somewhat intentional, 
similarity here's Oscar Wilde's "SYmphony in Yello" :
   An omnibus across the bridge
     Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
     And, here and there, a passer-by
   Shows like a little restless midge.
 
   Big barges full of yellow hay
     Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
     And, like a yellow silken scarf,
   The thick fog hangs along the quay.
 
   The yellow leaves begin to fade
     And flutter from the Temple elms,
     And at my feet the pale green Thames
   Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
 
While discussing this point with Ron I noticed someting else that Wilde 
wrote that struck me as something kate probably liked:
  "The artist is a creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal 
the artist is art's aim....The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a 
mode of autobiography...." Oscar Wilde, Preface to the Picture of Dorian 
Gray. Any thoughts?  Has anyone else noticed the Symphony in Blue/Yellow 
phenomena? Does anyone care???
                            --- Lionheart

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