Real facts of GP
Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:34 AM
Last comprehension test, the top 5 students are:
1. Bryan Hee
2. Lim Chern Tze
3. Yee Guang Yi
4. Yap Chien
5. Wu Qiuhan and Priscilla Chao
All good looking, intelligent, lively young people. Can't deny that they are *really, really, really, really* good looking.
GP's tutor favourite authors:
Haruki Murakami
Shakespeare
Orson Scott Card
René Goscinny
Jane Austen
Where's Wilde? That's intensely sacrilegious! I can't believe it!
Note about Wilde's supposed 'opinions' on art:
The previous post is extracted from the preface of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, not from the book itself. It was written by Wilde in response to criticisms on the book due to the unconventional themes found in the book that society did not readily accept back in the 1890s, and a closer look at the passage will reveal a lot more than just what is on the surface.
All art is quite useless?
Of course if you were to take the above quote (which many ignorant people do) as it is, it means one thing. Yet, if you were to study what Wilde says before this quote (which the person who posted the extract conveniently left out), you will understand what Wilde is really trying to say: We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
Never take a sentence or saying out of context, because words are dangerous.
When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. - William Shakespeare
I rest my case.