RE: House of Mystery

[WretchAwry <vickie@pilot.njin.net>]

> ]Now, here's a new mystery for you English Lit types:
> ]Listening to "December will be Magic", what connection does
> ]Oscar Wilde have with Christmas?  O. Henry, Charles Dickens I
> ]can obviously see if Kate used those as a literary referance.
> ]But Oscar Wilde?  Is there some story of his ("The Importance
> ]of Being Santa"?) I don't know about?

Hey, where are all the experts??  My memory is not so good, and I don't
remember the name of the story, but during the unedited MTV interview
Kate talks about an Oscar Wilde story she loved as a child.  It has
to do with a jewel-encrusted statue of a man and a little bird.  I 
don't think it's a "Christmas" story, but it ends in the wintertime.
Surely IED (or Ron) transcribed(?) that interview which was filmed
during her November 1985 visit to NYC.

I now turn the topic over to IED, or someone with fancy technology
who can scan the archives (specifically The Garden or Cloudbusting)
easier than I can.

That interview, btw, is probably my all-time favorite Kate interview
and if we come across an excellent copy, I'm going to lobby hard for
it to go on the next tape tree.  There are so many little wonderful 
tidbits in it, not the least of which is the genesis for the video
(to be filmed 4 years later) of "The Sensual World" but I'll leave
the details as a future suprise.
 
The whole fascinating interview runs about 40 minutes, but MTV ended 
up using only about 30 seconds of it. :-(
 
Vickie

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