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QUOTATION: “On Speaking Truth” / Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde On TruthOscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
Irish Writer, Poet, Classicist, Spokesman for Aestheticism, and Atheist.
Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation.

h/t: Being Liberal

POETRY: “This Be the Verse” / Phillip Larkin

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Phillip Larkin in a LibraryThis Be the Verse
BY Phillip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Source: The Poetry Foundation

LITERATURE: “FBI Treated Carlos Fuentes as Communist Subversive”

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Carlos Fuentes, who died in 2012, was treated by US authorities as a communist sympathiserAcclaimed Mexican author and thinker had visas denied and was tracked when he did visit US, newly public files reveal.

Carlos Fuentes, who died in 2012, was denied visas in the 1960s because US authorities regarded him as a communistsubversive.

The FBI and US state department closely monitored the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes for more than two decades because he was considered a communist and a sympathiser of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, recently released documents show.

The documents posted on the FBI’s website show the US denied Fuentes an entry visa at least twice in the 1960s. In one of the memoranda Fuentes is described as “a leading Mexican communist writer” and a “well-known Mexican novelist with long history of subversive connections”.

Fuentes died in 2012 at age 83 after suffering an internal haemorrhage.

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