What kept Dorian Gray young was a painting of himself. The painting grew old instead of him.
Saturday, September 12, 20097:43 AMNeal [email protected] >Sandy: > >I looked it up on Google. The book title was the Picture of Dorian >Gray, written in 1890, the only novel by Oscar Wilde. The Wikipedia >encyclopedia calls it a modern classic. They did not mention his >birthday, but as I recall, Dorian went to court and had it legally >changed to 30 February, which resulted in his looking young for the >remainder of his life. I know, Oscar Wilde tried to make the readers >believe that it was the portrait that aged, but of course, anyone with >common sense knows that this is impossible. > >Neal > >On Sep 411, 1120092007, at 6:40 PM, Sandra Schreiber wrote: > >> Neal: my cat was named after the book! I am pretty sure it is >> "a" not "e"...I do have a copy of the book, but am in St. >> Louis...will look it up when I get home...Sandy >> On Sep 11, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: >> >> Sandra: >> >> That is quite a coincidence. Is his birthday on February 30th? >> >> I was, of course, referring to the man in the famous old classic >> book by the same name. It was required reading when I was in Male >> high school. or maybe in freshman English class in college. >> >> About the spelling; I may be wrong . Perhaps it was Gray. I no >> longer have a copy of the book. >> >> Neal Hammon >> >> >> On Sep 411, 1120092007, at 10:21 AM, Sandra Schreiber wrote: >> >>> funny, Dorian GRAY is the name of my cat (gray of course, also my >>> maiden name) >>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Neal Hammon wrote: >>> >>> Marta: >>> >>> And if you do not know the month and day, just mark it down as Feb. >>> 30 >>> >>> Neal Hammon >>> >>> PS: That was Dorian Grey's birthday. >>> >>> On Sep 411, 1120092007, at 7:51 AM, Marta Edie wrote: >>> >>>> When you know a person's birthday date, but not the year he/ she >>>> was born, how can you do that in the address book under the rubric >>>> "birthday", I mean, how can you leave the year out? I have helped >>>> myself by doing "0001", so I know I don't know. >>>> >>>> Marta >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacGroup mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >>> >>> Sandra Gray Schreiber, AAA >>> Schreiber Silver >>> Schreiber Appraisal Associates >>> 50 River Hill Road >>> Louisville, Ky 40207 >>> office: 502-893-3308 >>> home: 502-893-2303 >>> email: [email protected] >>> www.schreibersilver.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> Sandra Gray Schreiber, AAA >> Schreiber Silver >> Schreiber Appraisal Associates >> 50 River Hill Road >> Louisville, Ky 40207 >> office: 502-893-3308 >> home: 502-893-2303 >> email: [email protected] >> www.schreibersilver.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
