A brilliant dancer is persecuted and destroyed by the forces of mediocrity. Trenchant commentary on the envy and persecution of genius. Literary fantasy.
Of No Importance is a colorful, charming reading of a fairy tale in the style of the tales of Oscar Wilde. In this tale-within-a-tale, Karen's fictionalized Oscar Wilde relates a strange story over tea to both Karen's unhappy fictional narrator and to Oscar's well-known character, the Happy Prince. It is a tale of magic and intrigue and concerns a young princess who danced so well and beautifully that envy and ignorance destroyed her. Or did the princess choose to dance to destroy herself? This story was originally published in Liberty.
"Quite an astonishing marriage of styles that by rights shouldn't mesh."
--Tom Kidd, Music Connection, Vol. XXI, No. 4, February 17 -
March 2, 1997
1 story. Playing time: 40:55
Opening
lines - (Opening lines of the story in RealAudio format)
Opening lines:
And so Oscar Wilde is sitting on one side of me and the eyeless Happy Prince with his broken heart is sitting on the other. Our little table is fierce with roses -- the kind of roses the nightingale pierced her heart and sang for as she died into dawn and her life's blood colored them red. We are drinking arsenic and lead and discussing the nature of want. There is a dead swallow on the Happy Prince's plate with a sapphire in its bony beak pointed towards Oscar. It is that kind of day.
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