The picture of Dorian Gray
Apr. 8th, 2008 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnteachReading Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on PDF (www.pdfplanet.com) and I'm struck by three things: 1. How elegant and witty his writing is; 2. How it is a novel of novel philosophy, not any sort of horror or mystery story, really; and 3. How striking this novel philosophy must have been!
Famous quote for the day: The District was closed down by the federal government (over the strong objections of the New Orleans city government) during World War I in 1917. In regard to prostitution, New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman pronounced that, "[y]ou can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular." After 1917, when Storyville was shut down, separate black and white underground dens of prostitution emerged around the city.
Storyville was intentionally instituted and regulated, on the model of northern German and Dutch naval towns, with a goal to keep the crime limited.
Otherwise, all situations still developing.
Famous quote for the day: The District was closed down by the federal government (over the strong objections of the New Orleans city government) during World War I in 1917. In regard to prostitution, New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman pronounced that, "[y]ou can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular." After 1917, when Storyville was shut down, separate black and white underground dens of prostitution emerged around the city.
Storyville was intentionally instituted and regulated, on the model of northern German and Dutch naval towns, with a goal to keep the crime limited.
Otherwise, all situations still developing.
