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As a country, we've always romanticized coolness. The founders were the original rebels with a cause, and the leather jacket of hipness was passed down from Natty Bumppo to James Dean to Leonardo DiCaprio. Bill Clinton lived this duality. He was not exactly a heartbreaker at Hot Springs High...
The comparison with a redneck superstar might outrage bluestocking Wilde partisans, but it isn't quite the heresy it seems. Like Elvis, Wilde was a fiercely ambitious hinterlander who took the cultural establishment by storm ("I am not English, I am Irish--which is quite another thing," he stipulated). And...
But unlike Elvis, Wilde was one of his era's foremost men of letters, inordinately well-read and a master of irony. He was also a man of notoriously reckless appetites--for young men, fine things and controversy.
And yet, "there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas...
Even though the experiment seemed to show that the underpinning of TT, the manipulation of human energy fields, is bunk, you said TT nonetheless "sometimes works." Certainly there are anecdotal reports of its effectiveness, just as there are reports that Elvis is still among us. But anecdote is not evidence...