RARA-AVIS: Joel Cairo as Oscar Wilde
Frederick Zackel (fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:56:04 -0500 (EST)
I don't have the Falcon in front of me, but Joel Cairo might be
somehow
representative of a literary movement(?) of the turn of the
century, that
"art for art's sake." Cairo wears the carnation and has the
theatre
tickets; if I recall, Wilde (also the dandy) used the carnation
as a
"secret badge of membership" among his band of similar thinking
artists.
How far off am I?
Thanks
Frederick Zackel
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