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Oscar Wilde

This is an extraordinary film from 1960 about the downfall of Oscar Wilde in the 1890’s. We are very lucky to have the whole film available on YouTube. I find it very well acted. I first saw it more than … Continue reading

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Dark Satanic Mills

What has become a cliché has its origins in a piece of verse by William Blake. In my ignorance too, I understood the Dark Satanic Mills as the textile factories of the Industrial Revolution where children and poor people worked … Continue reading

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