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Picking from our platters the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces.
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The English Renaissance of Art, delivered in New York only a year before, and with Whistler's well-known opinions, it is impossible not to admit that the charge was justified. Such phrases as
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Again and again he reached pure beauty of expression. The masterly persiflage, too, filled me with admiration and I declared that the lecture ranked with the best ever heard in London with Coleridge's on Shakespeare and Carlyle's on Heroes. To my astonishment Oscar would not admit the superlative quality of Whistler's talk; he thought the message paradoxical and the ridicule of the professors too bitter.
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Whistler's like a wasp, he cried,
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Oscar's kindly sweet nature revolted against the disdainful aggressiveness of Whistler's attitude. Besides, in essence, Whistler's lecture was an attack on the academic theory taught in the universities, and defended naturally by a young scholar like Oscar Wilde. Whistler's view that the artist was sporadic, a happy chance, a
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in fact, was a new view, and Oscar had not yet reached this level; he reviewed the master in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, a review remarkable for one of the earliest gleams of that genial humour which later became his most characteristic gift:
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Whistler, he said,
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Oscar--the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar--with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions ... of others!
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: Whistler even preferred to call him