From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 02:49:01 BST
Phyllis said:
I've long been intrigued by a character in Louis Bromfield's novels named
Lily Shane. Set in the Edwardian/Victorian era (one won a Pulitzer in 1927)
Lily is a rich woman who has a child out of wedlock and a different lover
after. She is rich and the epitome of elegance. It is said of her that
"Her taste was perfect, so her morals didn't matter."
dmb says;
I haven't read the book, but based on that pithy little quote and what I
know about the Victorian era, I'd venture a different take. Pirsig talks
about how social approval was everything to the Victorians, how they'd lost
track of the meaning and purpose behind their brittle decorative wrought
iron and public morality. So I think the quote is about that kind of
hypocracy. She exhibits elegance on the outside only. Oscar Wilde's PICTURE
OF DORIAN GREY came years earlier, but expresses the same theme and is set
in the same Victorian era. But that's just my immediate and unread opinion.
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