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exclamania-news-network · 8 months

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[A sentient chess set, minus the board, floats in. the pawns start speaking one by one, from a to h, alternating white and black.]

♙Hey, I'm Alfred, and I'd like to vote Nefarious!

♟Oi'm Aaron, and Oi'm vot'n José.

♙Bailey here, I'll BE voting Nefarious as well.

♟Name's Bianca, and I'm gonna vote for the Wizard also!

♙I'm Chloé, and I'll vote Nefarious.

♟My name'sssss Carter, and Nefariousssss hasssss my vote too.

♙I'm Dani, and I'm voting Nefarious.

♟Drake's the game and chess is my home game- aw wait. Whatever I'm voting for The Nefarious Wizard.

♙ei'm Edith, aend ei'm votinge Nefarious alsoe.

♟Emerson. I'm voting Status.

♙Hey, name's Felix. I'll cast my vote for Nefarious.

♟I'm Finn and you're watching me vote Nefarious!

♙I am known as Grace. I will use my ballot to increase the number of votes for the one known as Nefarious by one.

♟Gerry Mander here, I'm voting Status.

♙i'm... my name is henry.... and i'm v-voting for josé...

♟HEY MY NAME IS HARPER I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR NEFARIOUS!!!

[The other pieces begin talking one by one, in the same order of a to h and alternating white and black. The kings, however, remain silent for now.]

♖Akta like chaos. Akta vote Nef.

♜Argona is me.... Nefarious is my president...! If I am to decide...

♘I am Belle of the Ball. I will vote for Status.

♞Bolaro says Bolaro counter Balls Belle vote.... José.

♗I am High Priestess Christiansen, and I will cast my shining vote for The One who Updates, Status.

♝I am,, Higher Priesbt, Carlosen. I vooote Nefarious. Hehehehe.... I surej am th higher Priest of dis land..

♕Hello, friends.... I am Darci, Queen of the army of Light. I am going to vote for Status Updates.

♛I'm Dianne, Empress of the Army of Shadow. I will do my best to ensure Nefarious gets his reign... with a singular vote, of course.

♗My name and title is Lowest Priest Fitzgerald. I have been documenting my findings on each candidate, and have decided that none of this matters. I cast my vote for a write-in, named Spinel, just to see her name on the results.

♝I be low priest Fabio. I will vote for the true chosen, José.

♘I am Great Galerider. I will cast my ballot for Nefarious Exclam.

♞....they named me Grecy Guuci. I'm voting for Nefarious as well.

♖Hantril Cobblesplitter. I vote for Nefarious.

♜Hudileg Bonegrinder's the name, voting for José's my game, right now at least.

[...]

♔ I am Ernest, King of the Serious and those of brightened sun. I hold no hostility to those who went against me, though I will not change my mind from their actions. I am voting for Status Updates.

♚ I am Erebou, Monarch of the Primal and those of darkened shadow. You need not know my story, though my vote is clear. I will cast all my strength, and this ballot, to Nefarious Exclam.

[okeey....]

[20 for Nef, 6 for Status, 5 for José.]

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the-prince-of-professors · 5 years

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Wilde and Raffles

Parallels between the Playwright and the Gentleman Thief

It is known that Oscar Wilde was a good friend of Ernest William Hornung, author of the Raffles stories; and when Hornung had a son in 1895, he was named Arthur Oscar -- after his godfather and uncle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and very likely after Wilde. It is also believed that Hornung’s characters A. J. Raffles and Harry “Bunny” Manders were partly based on Wilde and his lover Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas). There are indeed some similarities between the characters and their real life models -- Raffles the eloquent speaker, the lover of art, witty, and ruthless when needed; Bunny the poet, fair and innocent looking, and with a nickname similar to Douglas’s.

But there are also quite a few parallels between Wilde’s and Raffles’s lives. I thought it was time to make a compilation of these facts, found under the cut:

(Warning: Major spoilers for the Raffles stories)

(Note I: Regarding Raffles and Bunny, referenced story/collection and publication year are put in parentheses after each event.)

(Note II: Facts on Wilde are mainly from Wikipedia, trusting that the sources mentioned there are reliable. Same with above mentioned facts on Hornung (though frequently mentioned elsewhere). Also, great thanks to @regshoe for compiling a Raffles timeline.)

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EVENTS

1895

February 18th: Wilde receives the calling card from Bosie’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry, accusing him of sodomy: the feud between the two begins.

Winter/spring, likely April: Bunny leaves Raffles, moves to Thames Ditton and tries to keep up an honest living by writing. (”The Gift of the Emperor”, 1898)

April: Wilde is arrested for “gross indecency”. Bosie flees the UK, along with a number of other men at risk for prosecution.

May: Wilde is sentenced to two years’ hard labour, and incarcerated on the 25th.*

June-July: Raffles and Bunny board the ship bound for Naples, on which they are later arrested for a number of their crimes (exactly which crimes are not mentioned in the text). Raffles escapes overboard and is presumed dead; Bunny is later tried and sentenced to eighteen months in prison.* (”The Gift of the Emperor”, 1898)

* Following these events, naturally Wilde, Raffles, and Bunny all lose their former social positions and reputations.

1897

Early ‘97: Bunny is released from prison, and begins to write a “series of articles upon prison life”. (”No Sinecure”, 1901)

May: Raffles returns, an aged man, under the name of “Mr Maturin”, and is reunited with Bunny. (”No Sinecure”, 1901)

May: Wilde is released from prison, in poor health, and immediately leaves for France. He takes the name “Sebastian Melmoth” -- Sebastian after the saint, and Melmoth after the character in Melmoth the Wanderer, a famous novel written by his great-uncle Charles Maturin. On May 27th he writes a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle on the “cruelties of prison life”, regarding the treatment of children in prison.

Late ‘97: Wilde and Bosie are reunited, and spend a few months together near Naples before parting again.

1897-1900

♦ Wilde spends his last years on the continent, ending up in Paris.

♦ Raffles and Bunny live together under false pretences: first in Earls Court as patient and nurse, and then in Ham Common as brothers. (The Black Mask, 1901; “The Raffles Relics, 1905)

1900

February-April: Raffles and Bunny join the troops in South Africa. Raffles is killed on the battlefield. (”The Knees of the Gods”, 1901)

November 25th: Wilde dies in Paris.

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If you have something to add, please do!

(My thoughts: There are some truly striking similarities here, and I feel that the arrests and public downfalls in ‘95, and the returns under false names (as well as the connection between those names) are particularly difficult to dismiss as coincidences -- and especially in relation to each other. As far as I know Hornung, he was not one to be careless with details: rather one to weigh every word on a gold scale where it counted. Personally, I find it unlikely that any of these choices were not very deliberately made.)

#crime and cricket #oscar wilde #a j raffles #e w hornung #bunny manders #raffles and bunny #bosie douglas #wilde and raffles #raffles canon #analysis #archive: library #like none of this is new #but at least i haven't seen it compiled before and i thought it could be useful

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sgtscholar · 4 years

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Alfred Ernest Mander, a warrior-scholar, had this to say in 1947 Full excerpt: “Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically—without learning how, or without practicing. It is ridiculous to suppose that any less skill is required for thinking than for carpentering, or for playing tennis, golf, or bridge, or for playing some musical instrument. People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than those people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge-players, or pianists. Yet our world is full of people who apparently do suppose that thinking is entirely unskilled work; that thinking clearly and accurately is so easy and so “natural” that “anybody can think;” and that any person’s thinking is quite as reliable as any other person’s. This accounts for the fact that, as a people, we are so much less efficient in this respect than we are in our sports. For nobody assumes that any game is so easy that we are all first-class players “naturally,” without having to learn how to play or without practice” Mander served various roles in the UK military, notably on the Western Front in WW1. He later moved to New Zealand & Australia, became a psychologist, author, and public servant. Carpe Datum and Semper Sci! Part 1.1 of the Critical Thinking Series (CTS) https://sgtscholar.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/part-1-1-higher-purpose/ Australian Dictionary of Biography's website. A. E. Mader. 2012 entry by Murray Goot (volume 18). Quote: Mander, Alfred Ernest. (1947). Introduction in: Logic for the millions. NY: Philosophical Library. p. viii #logic #criticalthinking #veteran #cognition #reason #STEM #psychology #science #warrior #education #metacognition #WW1 #fallacies #pseudoscience #evidence #civics #duty https://www.instagram.com/p/CCt7xfgDoit/?igshid=16185xt8l4wgi

#logic #criticalthinking #veteran #cognition #reason #stem #psychology #science #warrior #education #metacognition #ww1 #fallacies #pseudoscience #evidence #civics #duty

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