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wav1,now
wav2,normally when we invite someone to the Union it's because they are particularly famous for something they might have won the World Cup
wav3,they may have acted in a 664 film they may have done something truly amazing and sometimes they have said or done something truly terrible every now
wav4,can we do invite people who are famous and amazing with an invite simply arguably because of the shape their personality unfortunately
wav8,stop it stop it stop it hello tune honestly this is incredibly kind of you and I
wav10,very little faces beaming up at me I wanted to throw a huge love blanket over all of you and it made me so it's incredibly great
wav12,is through a man I would put as a candidate as one of the five greatest
wav13,oxonian an enormous influence on my life not what we would now call British although in his day he was called British
wav15,is Oscar finger a flirty Will's wild and I just want to say a few things about him because he is every year I live he becomes a more
wav16,extraordinary figure you probably know the basic outline that he was born in 1854 on October 16th I'm boring you with things you so
wav17,I don't need to be retold so it is in fact just passed his 160th birthday he died in November the 1900
wav18,and he was do you want a little vapour rub and he was he was as
wav19,probably know he was Irish his father sir William Wilde was an ophthalmic surgeon and poet
wav20,and was the ophthalmic surgeon surgeon royal which meant should the odd occasion arrived where
wav21,infection he would be the Chosen surgeon wild grew up and went
wav22,to Trinity College Dublin which is where all Protestants went if they were of any sort of ambition and ability in a
wav24,the greatest Classics tutor of his day who sent a letter introducing him to those of anybody here from mod
wav26,saying this is the
wav28,famous famous in the British press famous all over the country and even in the continent not because it written anything particularly extraordinary
wav29,write in the middle plum spang in the middle of the Victorian era
wav30,of sobriety black frock coats and decency and indignation and a sense of moral purpose in moral superiority
wav31,he was like an extraordinary butterfly full of colour and light vivid and extraordinary paradoxes and even when he was interview
wav32,buy the London newspapers in his second year of Oxford he was asked what his ambition was and he said to live up to my collection of blue and white China
wav33,and he then did you still have vivers here yeah those of you don't
wav34,live voice it's a kind of examination which isn't written down the way
wav36,think that was a sneeze it may have just been an indication of complete discussed and then this
wav37,he was doing this
wav38,this examination and you had to show that you were familiar not just with classical Greek attic Greek as they call it but also with New Testament Greek the New Testament is I'm
wav41,it was the passion the crucifixion of Christ listens to Wild stop you carried on Mr Wilde put that book down and we'll move on to other things let me go on I'm
wav43,an explosion of promise and he was going to become a politician this is what everybody's view was and he would be the most brilliant politician of his day he would make Israeli the only person
wav44,compare him with also a flamboyant Dandy who made this really look possibly positively in a mothball and he arrived
wav45,met this woman Constance Lloyd actually beautiful wonderful intelligent perfect soulmate and they married and and then a very
wav46,anything happened Gilbert and Sullivan now much less celebrated they were in their own time wrote one of the operators and it's called patience
wav47,and it it makes fun of Oscar Wilde and his set he had not written anything that we would read now he was so famous
wav48,play for the way he dressed a bit like Malcolm McLaren way before you were born was in about 1974
wav49,just before Punk Malcolm McLaren was famous for dressing for safety pins to his nose things like they then became the manager of the Sex Pistols and everything
wav50,simply because of their personality that flamboyants the way they dress the way they talk no one really since
wav52,who ran the Savoy opera companies it was called and called Survivor because it's quite
wav53,and the Savoy Hotel is the most modern extraordinary hotel in the world at the time it had lifts it had a
wav54,where is the chef it had the most remarkable Oscar in the bum in the horrible way but at the time Richard dolly part was an incred
wav55,to Broadway to America now the problem
wav58,extraordinary young men who woke up and down with a lily in their hand and they walk back again just for the fun of it and to be seen so Richard
wav59,what was the equivalent now something like 2 million pounds to go round America for a year
wav60,the customs shared when
wav61,if you had anything to declare he said I have nothing to declare except my genius and he was asked by Americans were very curious about their own country and the way Britain
wav63,violent deadly war that has ever been waged terms of deaths horrible thought all civil wars so
wav64,how do you find the Atlantic
wav65,giving lectures on two subjects the house beautiful
wav66,is the first recorded instance of somebody lecturing on interior decoration extraordinary understanding and the other was the life and works of
wav67,great Italian sculpture and silversmith benvenuto challenge who was not well known in in America at all especially amongst the lecture going classes who were
wav69,yes I am looking at you by Ben venuto shalini the famous
wav70,10% in gold I'm sure you know the one you know it of course you do anyway he was a remarkable man Chile and he wrote his own autobiography he was a criminal he was an extraordinary figure and
wav71,he went down a silver mine in leadville Colorado and he held the Miners in
wav72,can we talk to this
wav74,who shot him is believed by one of his best biographies Richard Hillman
wav75,he died of syphilis when he did die in 1900 and that the syphilis was contracted from prostitutes with whom he consulted at that time in America where it was
wav78,how to decide whether or not to sit for Parliament
wav80,why were Oxford be his undoing because he went to see his old college and he saw the Old tutors and they all welcome
wav81,who is the younger younger son
wav82,of the Microsoft Queensbury ancient Scottish family known as The Black douglases on account of the Notorious history of Murder suicide
wav84,and reasonably talented and he fell completely
wav85,play the did just composed
wav86,call salome Richard written for Sarah Bernhardt the greatest actress of a day though to be perfectly force her about because he says in the forward of the translation
wav87,play foreign actor or actress would be the work of an artisan not an artist so here we go himself naturally as an artist but Al
wav88,what does had no inhibitions he had the full cruel absolute garnish self-confidence of the Victorian
wav89,it was utterly without concealment which is quite admirable in some ways he was utterly without shame she's also admirable in some ways he was actually
wav90,without any sense of obligation to anybody else which is perhaps less admirable so before the airplane crashes into the chamber
wav91,I will wrap up this love story which seems so promising and so wonderful hit London
wav92,the vacations and they became lovers and the word harm
wav93,the first sexologist of the day hadn't given a name to those
wav94,love their own kind as it's often was often put or inverts as it was sometimes called perverts also I turned about
wav95,the Abominable crime of buggery had been on the statute books for hundreds of years and around this time only 10 years earlier had been a motion in Parliament called the
wav96,chair amendment which was passed which was actually a law against prostitution which at the last minute hand sort of sort of slipped into it a law against
wav97,indecent behaviour between those between men actually not between women at all because it is rumour though never substantiated the Queen Victoria
wav99,not my position for my position literally but it's not my place to put myself
wav101,all kinds of transgender people and I wouldn't want to take that lightly because I'll get Twitter shit if I do about anything else and
wav102,busy as as Lord Alfred was nicknamed it was definitely because he had a Jeep I'm sure you will have Jeep
wav103,is in your rooms in college no that's Cambridge sorry scouts you have you have a scout from bless you is it just going on like a tennis match
wav110,and I said to him is there any difference between the Cambridge now and the Cambridge when you were a jet and you really worked so well he said
wav111,the gentleman would change their under
wav112,about 2 or 3 times a week and their shirts and collars about 2 or 3 times a day but
wav113,what's the other way around the history of the world through the skid mark is there
wav116,he's been blackmailed by his scout with scouts younger brother I think with whom he had imp
wav117,relations and he'd written a letter and then the same young man
wav119,roseleaf lips made for The Madness of kisses is that the right thing for a gentleman to be writing to another gentleman
wav121,£200 well then you must see them at once it is more than I have ever been offered for a prose
wav124,when the first world war broke out he held himself into it 100 years ago how old himself into it because
wav126,Queensbury Who
wav127,absolutely
wav128,world
wav129,in fact it's an odd statistic that during the 19th century more theatres were built
wav131,the last forever except The Importance of Being Earnest there's a new Victorian masterpieces except that
wav132,single play everything else is melodramas comedies that make no sense to us and it was on the first night of that very play that that was his father
wav133,the marks of Queensbury went round backstage with rotten cabbages and tomatoes and things he was going to throw on stage at the end he was barred by the state's dormant have been
wav134,two Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite
wav136,when wild went to the club the next day he was given this card he opened it and read it now do you mean someone writing to Oscar
wav138,Lord
wav140,who was then Foreign Secretary and Queensbury was Madden by the fact that he couldn't get it Lord queensberry because Lord queensberry was too powerful
wav141,that Jew queer Rosebery called him rosemary became Prime Minister the Prime Minister just before Salisbury I think he's 20
wav142,and Queensbury saw his chance he may not be able to get Rosebery
wav143,what causes eldest son Francis to commit suicide but he could get this Irish nobody who had no place in Society
wav145,who are the court case took place where wild sued the Marquis of Queensbury for libel it was such a disaster so many Witnesses appeared
wav146,particularly those staff members of The Savoy hotel so I told you to return to bite him in the bum where he had spent many a happy afternoon and weekend with Lord Alfred and with indeed with rent
wav147,and the testimony was so shocked European audiences involved the stains on bed linen for us is almost unimag
wav148,even today to think this is these things are raised in court to a Victorian who never read these things in newspapers the whom these things were never
wav150,and there is no powder with power enough to shift those days even fill it bang
wav151,the case collapsed Midway through
wav152,the perfect opportunity to escape because that was the gentlemanly thing to do you go to France it happened a little later
wav153,with Lord Beecham who famously was the model of Lord March man in that absolutely unbeatable Oxford novel Brideshead Revisited which
wav154,Sebastian flyte and who dies a drunkenness and it's a
wav155,based on on the 6th of Beacham who turned out to be what gay is with now say but what kind of words we use to him he fled to to
wav156,because the police were on his heels King George V was King at the time memorably said I thought men Like That shot themselves
wav158,he awaited events
wav159,how old is greater friendship is the last train takes you down to Dover off the train onto the boat onto a train to Paris spoke French completely
wav160,kinds of world literature
wav162,where felons and criminals dwell we must ask you to come with us quietly for this is the Cadogan Hotel
wav163,and he went and he was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment at hard labour the judge Mr Justice Wills said this
wav164,worst case I have ever tried he had not long previously tried a case of child murder that's how much while
wav165,which in my opinion is not nearly harsh enough you must go to prison
wav166,for 2 years at hard labour take him down his solicitor had told him that if the maximum sentence
wav168,extraordinary strongman to Dublin a group of rugby players to come to break up his famous collection of blue and white China
wav169,tumbled down to the bottom of the stairs with a snapping of collarbones
wav170,quietly into my room I shall make you
wav171,toast with anchovy butter and tell you stories little meatly went up and listening telling stories sitting by the fire was the unbelievably captivating
wav172,Conan Doyle who met him at a dinner described in a much later autobiography he said that this was the most brill
wav176,so he survived his sentence he came out and lived a terrible Exile under the name of Sebastian melmoth based based
wav177,Walter Scott's Exile figure Sebastian melmoth The Wanderer and he died in Paris utterly Forgotten Man despised
wav179,he's a kind of I said Prince and if I wanted to go further I would say kind of messiah he had followers
wav180,disciples some of whom were loyal to him to the very last utterance others of whom betrayed him fled
wav182,he he also told parables there's a wonderful one and Reggie the
wav183,congratulated for first using the word homosexual in his book Kindle where he's using it in
wav184,to the class of person who has a Desire for their own sex that is their primary impulse because we'll never fell out of love with his wife he never considered it once there's a word for it
wav185,specific gender or sex
wav186,which is of course not necessarily how we will anyone of us would have been whether girls straight if we've been born 200 years ago that's not attractive person I really would love
wav190,generally wrong so suddenly you're a noun instead of a verb and as the philosophy Hume
wav191,he said there are no nouns in the universe which any physicists here but I'm sure but agree with everything is
wav192,concrete Flux of independent rating intensities is rather good isn't it you can have that feeling next
wav193,it gets a sort of underlining with pretentious but it's still pretty cool concrete Flux independent rating intensities
wav194,that's what we all are verbs we happen we don't we're not nouns even tables or process being a table stab
wav195,Rolex in time we are being ourselves more less stable in time so while till this great I think fantastic parable
wav197,demons and they were tormenting priest Monk and he wants them
wav199,and we have offered him so much if you will turn against his Christ and his god we've offered him powers and principalities we have offered him money and riches and gorgeous things
wav200,turn off it him love knowledge we have offered him everything but he stays true to his church he is truly a man of God for
wav201,9 Days and 39 nights we have tempted to still he holds fast and the devil said out of the way and he whispered in the monks here
wav202,an instant the monk snapped his petrol Crossing 2 Rent his garments asunder and shrieked implications against
wav203,gardeners church filling the air with the most vile hideous for fame speech and the Demons bow down is it truly
wav204,what can you have said in 5 seconds when we had tried 39 days and 39 nights you said oh it was very simple I merely told him that his brother
wav206,play reflect the human spirit but I want to go back to wild dying in Paris and I'm sorry
wav208,slowly to gain a name for himself and a fantastic Jacob Epstein sarcophagus is erected at Pearl of shares Cemetery the great Cemetery of
wav209,philosophers and of course most famously if you like your rock and roll Jim Morrison of The Doors
wav210,and set my pants on but I know that's not that was another band it was one of those you know they had a hit no they were big they like
wav212,mathematicians and
wav213,going down if you have to know New York City
wav214,if you're going down 5th Avenue which is one of the avenues that goes downtown as opposed to up like it's neighbours Madison
wav216,was the tallest building in the world the Empire State Building
wav219,tiny building completely
wav220,unlike most British traffic lights American traffic lights are beautiful synchronised so once you hit
wav221,green run and there's not much traffic you zoom down so the effect is that all the small buildings suddenly achieve their real size
wav224,and the pigments were regarded is great names with completely forgotten now people who wrote plays called things like the second Mrs Tanqueray
wav225,no orchids for Miss blandish things like that plays a very rarely performed except as a joke and he himself
wav226,has become the Empire State Building got bigger and bigger and bigger and the thing I want to say because it moves me intensely and I think of the intellect or the life of
wav228,I have been invited to universities schools and colleges and occasion you're in the rooms of some twinkly young little hamster that has invited
wav230,ignore me and when I first started doing that the posters on the wall you almost could go with your eyes shut you knew what that be
wav231,Karl Marx that one with a huge bushy beard maybe John Lennon the imagine cover
wav232,maybe Lenin maybe Jimi Hendrix and
wav233,electrified version of neon sort of version of Jimi Hendrix because students believed that the world was going to be saved
wav234,it would be saved by political Revolution and rock and roll we don't believe that anymore the the
wav235,Berlin Wall United you know the United States of the Soviet Union that the Warsaw pact as it was known
wav237,reflexive ball of ignorance and stupidity to think that Soviet Russia could be admired as anything and guiding the way towards freedom indeed even come out
wav238,and similarly music had become Cajun enjoyable occasionally created but far from the liberating spirit it was in the days of Jimi Hendrix and John L
wav239,so instead I started to notice the tumours common figures to be on the walls no I know it's just in beaver so it's a whole different deal
wav240,the most common figures to be on the walls of a student's rooms would be Albert Einstein an Oscar Wilde
wav242,and that life of the mind can be expressed in terms of someone like Einstein whose Concepts most of us fail to understand even if spelled out repetitively
wav243,different titles by Brian Cox we still don't really get it and it's no good being enthusiastic we don't speak
wav244,humanitarian face of Einstein's either the one with his
wav245,Woking out or or another one and we can see a humanity we can see a brilliant we can see a freedom of thought which Now more than
wav246,ever is the most highly priced thing we have who would have thought by the 21st century the Freedom of thought was even up for questioning but it is
wav247,there are huge sections of society that think we should not be free to think what we do think and certainly shouldn't be free to express it even in the chamber which
wav248,the most famous and brilliant letter ever written
wav250,can you remaining time in Oxford read that letter it's the most beautiful thing but he said to Boise in a recruitment of way because bozie was the one who put him there who never even visited him in
wav251,once you said to him that you fail to get a degree of Oxford is perfectly understandable many great minds further get a degree what is
wav252,is that you fail to acquire what is sometimes called the Oxford Manor which I take to mean the ability to play Grace
wav253,with ideas the ability to play gracefully with ideas isn't that a magnificent thing do you think you've got that
wav254,play gracefully with ideas so there's Albert Einstein
wav255,31 stone on the left and on the right is Oscar usually that tinnies with green photograph of melancholy full lipped face
wav256,did you realise when you're told you you know for a fact that after Shakespeare he is in many many countries the most translated in red English
wav257,which author from from Britain from the British Ireland and Ireland and that's astonishing thing in Romania in Japan is highly prized
wav258,but also this height is achieved I would say he now stands as the
wav259,king of Bohemia that land you should never ever leave the land that all students are issued a visa to when they go through the gates of their University
wav260,you're bohemians it means that you're free with your ideas you're free with your thoughts you're free to try things out and you never want to give that visa back
wav261,never ever
wav262,a lawn mower it's the moment you die inside we don't want that of you to sparkly and twinkly
wav263,Oscar is the prince of all students the Student Prince so hold this
wav264,yellow oxonian very dear in your hearts thank