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Title: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 17, 2013, 04:59:01 PM: This news deserves its own thread on the Bore!

http://the-toast.net/2013/09/17/oscar-wilde-and-walt-whitman-did-it/

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Stoddart tactfully left the two poets alone. ‘If you are willing – will excuse me – I will go off for an hour or so – come back again – leaving you together,’ he said. ‘We would be glad to have you stay,’ Whitman replied. ‘But do not feel to come back in an hour. Don’t come for two or three.’ Whitman opened a bottle of elderberry whine and he and Oscar drank it all before Whitman suggested they go upstairs to his ‘den’ on the third floor where, he told Oscar, ‘We could be on ‘thee and thou’ terms.’

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Stoddart went on to say that ‘after embracing, greeting each other as Oscar and Walt, the two talked of nothing but pretty boys, of how insipid was the love of women, and of what other poets, Swinburne in particular, had to say about these tastes.’ Stoddart’s reminiscences accord with Oscar’s later account of the meeting to his friend, George Ives.
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Oscar told Ives that there was ‘no doubt’ about Whitman’s sexual tastes. ‘I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips,’ he boasted.
:supergay :supergay :supergay :supergay :supergay :supergay :supergay
:tauntaun :tauntaun :tauntaun :tauntaun :tauntaun
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 17, 2013, 05:00:35 PM: :himu :himu :himu WILDE HOMO :himu :himu :himu
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Barry Egan on September 17, 2013, 05:00:59 PM: :ohhh
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 17, 2013, 05:03:07 PM: Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on September 17, 2013, 05:00:35 PM
:himu :himu :himu WILDE HOMO :himu :himu :himu

Take notes, BrandKnew.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Raban on September 17, 2013, 05:04:12 PM: :aah
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Polari on September 17, 2013, 05:14:56 PM: But who was bottom?

Oscar pretty sure.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 17, 2013, 05:19:17 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/aMISr9T.jpg)
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 17, 2013, 05:25:17 PM: Quote from: Polari on September 17, 2013, 05:14:56 PM
But who was bottom?

Oscar pretty sure.

If you read the article it's pretty clear Big Daddy Whitman was toppin'
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM: Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Himu on September 17, 2013, 05:47:28 PM: Oscar was a genius poet and author and I get sad every fucking time I see his bibliography on my bookshelf and how his life, youth, passion, and talent were killed all too before his time due to bigotry and ignorance.

Reading this link just got me angry.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Steve Contra on September 17, 2013, 05:49:49 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM
Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.
(http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/5/5c/Walt_disney.jpg)
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 17, 2013, 05:50:14 PM: Wilde gave you an appendix sheet, Himu? Damn, how did you meet him?
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Himu on September 17, 2013, 05:53:14 PM: Quote from: BrandNew on September 17, 2013, 05:50:14 PM
Wilde gave you an appendix sheet, Himu? Damn, how did you meet him?

What? Oscar Wilde was amazing and I idolized his writings in high school.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Polari on September 17, 2013, 05:54:44 PM: Quote from: Formerly Known As Himuro on September 17, 2013, 05:47:28 PM
Oscar was a genius poet and author and I get sad every fucking time I see his bibliography on my bookshelf and how his life, youth, passion, and talent were killed all too before his time due to bigotry and ignorance.

Reading this link just got me angry.

To be fair though Oscar was largely the architect of his own downfall.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Himu on September 17, 2013, 05:57:18 PM: :tocry
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: nudemacusers on September 17, 2013, 05:58:27 PM: Quote from: Steve Contra on September 17, 2013, 05:49:49 PM
Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM
Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.
(http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/5/5c/Walt_disney.jpg)
no that's the one that didn't like jews or blacks
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Polari on September 17, 2013, 06:00:28 PM: idk what that emote means but for someone so intelligent it was a dumbass move trying to sue the Marquess of Queensberry for calling him a gay when he was in fact gay.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 17, 2013, 07:01:16 PM: Quote from: Formerly Known As Himuro on September 17, 2013, 05:53:14 PM
Quote from: BrandNew on September 17, 2013, 05:50:14 PM
Wilde gave you an appendix sheet, Himu? Damn, how did you meet him?

What? Oscar Wilde was amazing and I idolized his writings in high school.

goddamit I'm an idiot. You said bibliography and I thought you meant to say biography, so I was trying to tease ya, thus referencing citation and references. Of course I forget that bibliography also refers to a collection of books. :'(

I deserve a paddlin'
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Himu on September 17, 2013, 07:02:29 PM: Quote from: Polari on September 17, 2013, 06:00:28 PM
idk what that emote means but for someone so intelligent it was a dumbass move trying to sue the Marquess of Queensberry for calling him a gay when he was in fact gay.

Indeed. But still.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Polari on September 17, 2013, 07:16:32 PM: Yeah what happened to him is still totally wrong no doubt. I know people are down on Dave Sim because he has some uh questionable views but the volume of Cerebus dedicated to the last days of Wilde, Melmoth, is really, really good. It's pretty much standalone too so it's not like you have to read any more of Cerebus to enjoy it.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Eric P on September 17, 2013, 07:36:28 PM: shout out to dave sim when he's not a misogynist
shout out to early to mid (everything up to the amazing Mothers and Daughters) cerebus

edit: shit. i like Rick's Story and Guys too. :(

i also own a lot of roman polanski

i am a horrible person
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 17, 2013, 09:44:34 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM
Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.

that dude who made hank figure out walter white was heisenberg
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: StealthFan on September 17, 2013, 10:19:51 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 17, 2013, 09:44:34 PM
Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM
Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.

that dude who made hank figure out walter white was heisenberg

PHUCKING PHILISTINE PLEBE
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 17, 2013, 10:34:53 PM: Fan fiction existed before the Internet? Who knew?
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: tiesto on September 17, 2013, 10:40:31 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 17, 2013, 05:40:39 PM
Great, now I have to remember who Walt Whitman was.

Name of a mall in Huntington :P
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 15, 2014, 02:42:44 AM: i just bought a Walt Whitman poetry collection. i hope it's good, for Oscar Wilde's sake.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 06:15:50 AM: And you know, just know, with that gigantic rhododendron of a beard, the oral sensations given by old Whitman's maw would be virtually indistinguishable from the untrimmed female genitals of the day. Wilde would have his cake and eat it, too.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 15, 2014, 06:47:45 AM: The bump had me expecting video proof.
:beli
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: toku on September 15, 2014, 07:32:33 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 15, 2014, 06:47:45 AM
The bump had me expecting video proof.
:beli

What's wrong with you?
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Totally Did It
Post by: king of the internet on September 15, 2014, 09:17:51 AM: Ew, he looks like a hobo.