Friday, January 1, 2010

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"--Frederic 's Profile

Write my Profile Challenge
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One of my favorite Faustian adaptation. (Is it a stretch to call that? I don't think so.)

The vast difference between Dorian Gray and Faustian legend, however, makes this story so intriguing; it is also the basis for argument that this story cannot be Faustian adaptation, that the main character is an antihero with a huge secret to hide.

All my life, I have been always attracted to the story with antihero. And Oscar Wilde himself has been my *antihero*, along with other artists, authors, philosophers with less than perfect social reputations.

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Anyway, I was talking to a certain young lord, and he utters something like in the effect that it would be interesting to see what others would write his own profile.
Incidentally, I pondered the exact same thing the night before, while I was about to fall asleep.
(This sort of coincidence happens a lot around me.)

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I know there are few of my friends who dedicate a pick for me in the past and present. Many more had a sentence or paragraph of me. Of course, they are assuringly flattering entries, but what we really wondered is the ones who might hate us.

We were discussing something that how others uses their own ignorance, naivete, or lack of perception to blame others, even insults them for being something they are not.
I got over all those, since there are more members of "I hate Fred in SL" than my friends, but the curious person that I am, I truly wonder what their logic, perception of my shortcomings are.

Are they really capable of seeing something I don't see in myself?
Are they really capable of analyzing my less than desirable character objectively?

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You may write as many, and you may add more in the future. I am thinking about establishing group or community. (Details will be discussed in the near future.)
Meanwhile:


Here is a Challenge for you.

Write my profile for me.


Keep it to yourself for now. I have not decided on submission details.