KittyDreamz86
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(10/5/03 9:52 pm)
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Sodomy Accusations/Defense
I was doing research on an author, Oscar Wilde, who was accused of things over a hundred years ago much the same as Michael Jackson is today. I have always been a major fan and supportive of Mike. Wilde however is an eloquent man and his retort to the accusations to me, sum up everything Michael has been trying to tell say. It is so ironic because it exactly echoes what he has been saying in defense. It's almost scary. Actually, it is more comforting because it reminds people that Mike's affection for children is not unprecedented and is even historically revered. "It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it." And most ironic of all "That it should be so the world does not understand. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it." I tried to send it to Michael, but there is no place for emails there. I like Michael, and I hope this can somehow get to him in the middle of all the accusations.
The 'Love that dare not speak its name' in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made as the very basis for his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michaelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michaelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the 'Love that dare not speak its name', and on account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so the world does not understand. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
Oscar Wilde, at his first trial, 26 April 1895.
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