notes for Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (TRM’s notes)

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’           by Oscar Wilde

–          Schumann’s Forest Scene

–          Les court Nouvelles

–          Manon Lescaut

–          Mercutio

–          Melbourne

–          Achilles statue

–          Marble Arch

–          ‘What do you mean by good, Harry?’

–          Caliban

–          Doges

–          Louis Quinze

–          Ophelia

–          Narcissus

–          ‘The Globe’

–          ‘Ennui’

–          Les consolation d’arts

–          Adonis

–          Michelangelo

–          Shakespeare

–          Montaigne

–          ‘St. James Gazette’

–          Sybil Vance

–          Florentine

–          French School of Symbolists

–          Eton

–          Oxford

–          Satyricon

–          Juroporos of the Rio Negro Indians

–          Yotl balls of Aztecs

–          ‘Tannhauser’

–          Alphonso’s ‘Cericles Disciplina’

–          Vale of the Jordan snakes

–          Democritus

–          King of Ceylon

–          ‘A Margarite of Amerika‘, Loge

–          Osborne, ‘Memoir on the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’

–          Gautier, ‘Emaux et Camee

–          A Florentine cap

–          Prince Charming

–          Tartuffe

–          ‘sphinxes without secrets’

–          ‘Out of the black cave of time, terrible and soaked in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.’

–          ‘the only horrible thing in the world is ‘ennui’

–          Artemis

–          ‘Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.’

–          San Francisco

–         ‘ Like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart.’ – Hamlet

–          ‘If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.’

–          Lilac

–          Laburnum

–          Basil Hallward

–          Lord Henry Wotton

–          Opium-tainted cigarettes

–          Laurel bush

–          White daisies

–          Discovery of oil painting by the Venetians

–          Antinonus – Greek sculptor

–          ‘O dream of form in days of thought’

–          Green-lacquered ivy

–          ‘there is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray’

–          ‘Nothing can cure the soul like the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.’

–          Chopin

–          Marsyas, Apollo

–          A New Hedonism

–          Purple stars on the clematis

–          ‘‘Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.’

–          Tyrian convulvus

–          Amethyst

–          This picture will remain always young

–          Ivory Hermes

–          Silver Faun

–          ‘Man is many things, but he is not rational.’

–          ‘Sin is the only real color element left in modern life.’

–          ‘The Times’

–          you dandies

–          ‘he could be made a Titan or a toy’

–          Plato

–          Buonarroti

–          ‘it is like hitting below the intellect’

–          ‘nowadays most people die of a creeping common sense and discover when it is too late the only thing one never regrets is one’s mistakes’

–          Silenus

–          Bacchante

–          Wise Omar

–          Persian carpet

–          Statuette by Clodion

–          ‘Price of everything, value of nothing’

–          frangiapani

–          Forest of Arden

–          Giordorno Bruno

–          Brocade

–          forget-me-nots

–          Louis Quatorze clock

–          The sky above was like  a faded rose

–          Messalina

–          ‘she is better than good, she is beautiful’

–          Purple-lipped irises

–          White lily

–          ‘it is not good for ones morals to see bad acting’

–          a fiasco

–          silk embroidered cashmere wool

–          onyx paved bathroom

–          sulphur yellow roses

–          Prussic acid

–          White lead

–          ‘The Standard’

–          poppies, asphodel

–          ‘Conscience makes egoists of us all’

–          Desdemona

–          Webster

–          Ford Cyril Tourneur

–          ‘the girl never really lived, so she never really died.’

–          Cordelia, daughter of Brabbantis

–          Lotus blossoms

–          ‘art is always more abstract than we fancy’

–          Panegyrics

–          Winckelmann

–          Cassone

–          bestial sodden unclean

–          ‘full of argot and archaisms’

–          Dante

–          Make themselves perfect by the worship of beauty

–          Arbiter elegetiarium

–          Gothic of grotesque

–          Search for sensations

–          Antinomianism

–          Darwinismus – movement in Germany

–          Violets

–          Psychology of perfumes

–          Tunisian

–          Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven

–          Bernal, Diaz, Cortez

–          Alfonso de Ovalle

–          Green jaspers

–          Cuzco

–          Jewels p. 151

–          Turquoise de la vielle roche

–          The great alchemist Pierre de Boniface

–          Diamond rendered a man invisible

–          Huns

–          Procopius

–          Marco Polo

–          Zipangu

–          King Perozes

–          Piers Gaveston

–          Parseme

–          Embroidery

–          Blue Gate Fields

–          Half-cold entrees

–          Gladstone bag and whistle

–          ‘though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them white as snow’

–          Tintoretto

–          Parma violets

–          ‘the morning Post’

–          Robinsonicana

–          Tartuffe

–          Strawberry leaves

–          Brandy

–          Perdida

–          Garden of mint and marigold

–          Water lilies

–          Jasmine

–          ‘A method of procuring extraordinary sensations’

–          ‘one should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner’