{"id":630,"date":"2004-09-26T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:39:56","slug":"dorian-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/dorian-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorian Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Other Favourite Colours<\/h4>\n

Someone just sent me a quote from \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming in him into his
\nwork.\u00a0 The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his
\nprejudices, his principles and his common-sense.\u00a0 The only artists I have
\never known who are personally delightful, are bad artists.\u00a0 Good artists
\nexist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting
\nin what they are.\u00a0 A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical
\nof all creatures.\u00a0 But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.\u00a0 The worse
\ntheir rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.\u00a0 The mere fact of having
\npublished a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.\u00a0 He
\nlives the poetry that he cannot write.\u00a0 The others write the poetry that
\nthey dare not realise.\u201d<\/p>\n

It suddenly occurred to me that I have found my favourite colour: dorian gray.
\nI\u2019m going shopping for a new wardrobe tomorrow.<\/p>\n

BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT, WAITING FOR THE T-SHIRT<\/p>\n

Have returned from Sweden and the premiere of the Helvetico-Swedish documentary, feeling very ordinary all of a sudden.
\nBefore, I could take refuge behind my work, which is much more interesting than I am, but left me my prejudices, principles and common-sense.
\nThe movie is really quite attractive, much more interesting than I can ever hope to be, and to make matters worse, it contains my prejudices,\u00a0 principles and common-sense, which leaves me with not much.
\nNow that it\u2019s all said and done, I feel very pale in comparison.<\/p>\n

I just hope I get some t-shirts.
\nI know what colour I want.
\nRIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME<\/p>\n

Just when it seems there is nothing else to say, next month\u2019s Lord of the Rings Official Fan Club Magazine (issue 17) will have an 8 page article on me. No point running to the local newsstand, it\u2019s available by subscription<\/a> only.
\nI\u2019ll put the rest of the article on the site when the following issue comes out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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RETURN TO SENDER<\/p>\n

My apologies for the umpteenth time to those who have sent letters over that last while and that I have never answered. I just cannot keep up with them, and was appalled on delving inot the box the other day and finding letters over a year old. (But, apparently, not appalled enough to actually sit down and reply\u2026)
\nI am terribly sorry, and will try to catch up.<\/p>\n

I am also sorting out a clear list of the costs of returning packages the world over, in order to permit those who wish to send books to be signed (a hazardous enterprise, let me tell you, I have a stack of those too\u2026) to include the adequate return postage.<\/p>\n

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