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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 514 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part 1

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's finally time to unveil THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde!

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0:00.0

Halloween is on the way.

0:02.8

Time to buy yourself some treats.

0:05.6

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0:08.4

maker of handmade horrors for your home.

0:11.9

From Lovecraft to Slasher Flix, Halloween to frozen crampuses.

0:17.0

The season of the witch starts here.

0:21.0

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0:24.0

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

0:35.0

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another

0:47.3

manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The The highest as the lowest form of

0:54.0

criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in

0:59.4

beautiful things are corrupt, without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful

1:06.7

meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect, to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

1:18.6

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

1:25.0

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their

1:32.0

peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

1:36.0

It is the spectator and not life that art really mirrors.

1:41.0

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

1:52.0

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.

1:57.0

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

2:03.9

All art is quite useless.

2:08.1

Oscar Wilde.

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