söndag 26 april 2009

Why I adore Charles "Chuck" Bass ...

I adore Gossip Girl. Which airs sundays at 7 o'clock. Chuck Bass?!! He has a flamboyant fashion sense, is a dangerous lothario, manipulative and always seeks vengeance - who is he, if not inspired by Oscar Wilde's hedonistic (hedonism is a school of philosophy which argues that pleasure has an ultimate importance and is the most important pursuit of humanity) Dorian Gray and Lord Henry Wotton?!!*

"A hedonist measures all action on the basis on how much pleasure and how little pain they produce and thereby strives to maximize the pleasure while minimizing the pain." Jeremy Bentham

Only litterature hold answers, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, P G Wodehouse best match my decadent state of mind. How I admire these men and the litteratue they have produced.

"Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve hopeless failure, or giving your life to the ignorant, the common, the vulgar. These are sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations". Oscar Wilde

* My all time heroe in fiction is Lord Henry Wotton. He a famous wit with a brilliant intellect. Given the seductive way in which he leads conversation, it is little wonder that I fall under his spell so completely. He is always cooly composed and unshakable. Although he is a self-proclaimed hedonist, who advocates the equal pursuit of both moral and immoral experience, he does lives a rather staid life himself and participates in polite London society, attends parties and the theater, but does not indulge in any sordid behavior.

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