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A look at Synthpop Style down the decades... https://medium.com/@nuromanca/silverfox-style-and-the-synthpop-scene-time-to-exit-the-grey-c6c58e81a471

dandydilettante

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
          
          We're still talking about you Oscar, many, many celebrities later.
          
          Alas, there are times it may be better to escape discussion by others; especially those that dwell amidst the often scathing sphere of Dandyism. 
          
          Dear old Oscar would doubtless have cared as little about the barbed views of detractors during his lifetime, as he's likely to do in dead mode. 
          
          Noel Coward was the first subsequent dandy to struggle with being amused by Wilde's plays. A diary entry during 1946 remarks "Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod."
          
          While Quentin Crisp - an exhibitionist and contemporary of Coward - lived in the shadows of the latter's fame until the 1970s. However his lectures on Life Style are beyond brilliant and his sentiment towards Wildean ways (after much analysis) essentially the same: "At the very time when his style should have saved him it abandoned him, because it wasn't anchored in sincerity." 
          
          (Mr Crisp developed a unique variant of 'Wildean' wit which became unknown as 'Crisperanto' - well worthy of study in all its wry realms).
          
          Meanwhile present day dandy par excellence Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen could not help but observe that Wilde was "handicapped at birth with a very large face indeed."
          
          Mr Wilde might well have expanded his own remark with some such caveat as '... not being talked about - unless the speakers are striving to reach your stature.'  
          
          Let's put it another way: shall his critics be widely talked about over a century after their time? And where does that leave the rest of us dismal creatures? 
          
          Happy in our here and now, let's hope: with the rich legacy that great books and characters have brought our way.

Davidstewart85

I signed up to this platform for the sole reason of complimenting you on a wonderfully written piece about Beau Brummell.

dandydilettante

@Davidstewart85 Thanks very much David! 
            
            If Dandyology is your thing, there may be a few posts on Brummell and other such souls on a blog/Facebook account still active and linked from my main Wattpad page.
            
            Thanks again for going out of your way to find this place ... it's well worth exploring too
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dandydilettante

Oh well, lockdown in the UK now ... and a good thing too with 34% of Britons* mostly and spectacularly nuts.
          
          Nothing better to read? Of course you have but while you're here (dear soul) you might wish to try something frivolous, to fortify yourself for the subtle stupidities of 2020.
          
          We have transcended parody in our politics; surpassed the skills of locusts in our supermarkets and given democracy a thoroughly twisted reputation: Jesus wept and doubtless for religion too! 
          
          Excuse me while I make a rather crucial cat video ... and await a more interesting apocalypse than that which the loo roll hoarders had hoped to engineer for us thus far. 
          
          *non-official figures but more accurate than most

dandydilettante

New logo, nice fresh look around the place!
          
          There was always something wishy-washy about that last, strung-out puddle of orange. Now there's a sense of 'Step back as you peal, or it's a zingy spritz of brilliance in both eyes!'
          
          Credit where it's due every so often @Wattpad ;)

dandydilettante

Awful move, @Wattpad ~ imagine having to read this sort of aimless drivel simply because it now happens to be aimed, arbitrarily, at helpless fellow Wattpadders. It's a shared state of suffering which really must cease... I shall shut-up for the entire damnable duration to show some sort of sincerity.

CarolinaC

@dandydilettante Now, now, I enjoy your drivel ;)
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rskovach

@dandydilettante unfortunately they haven't messaged this well, but they had to drop email notifications because providers were swamped with the volume and not delivering. They are looking into making these opt-out or filterable, so fingers crossed that this deluge is temporary.
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