majuscules partout si c'est en english

pour l'édition : lien en note à éditer directement dans le texte

Der Bericht geht von Nachhaltigkeitszielen aus.

Mit CDR könnte tatsächlich ein Paris-kompatibler Weg erreicht werden. Die im Moment vorgesehenen Investitionen sind von den dazu nötigen aber extrem weit entfernt.

Die Nachfrage nach CDR stammt im Augenblick zu einem großen Teil aus freiwilligen Verpflichtungen, carbon removal credits zu erwerben.

Footnote 8:

The last edition of Origin published during CD’s lifetime was the 1876 reprint of Origin 6th ed., and had some corrections and additions to the text (Freeman 1977). This edition was produced in a cheaper form than previous ones, with small type and a relatively small page; a ‘gentleman’s’ edition usually had larger type and page size, with wider margins.

Ref: Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11918,” accessed on 30 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11918.xml

ᔥ[[Richard Carter]] in Mastodon at Sep 23, 2024, 08:20 AM (accessed:: 2024-09-30 01:34:36)

Ein Report zum Stand der Dinge bei der Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre (CO2 Removal) ist in der zweiten Version erschienen. Insgesamt ist die CO2-Menge, die mit anderen Mitteln als der Wiederaufforstung im Pflanzen von Bäumen aus der Atmosphäre entfernt wird, extrem gering. Der Bericht kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Pariser Klimaziele ohne CDR unerreichbar sein werden, dass aber CDR ohne deutlich mehr Investitionen und eine schnelle Verringerung von Treibhausgasemissionen wirkungslos bleiben wird. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000222642/treibhausgase-aus-der-atmosphaere-saugen-wo-wir-bei-der-co2-entnahme-stehen

Proposal

Its internal collaborators are the main protagonists of the game.

Suggest removal

entrypoint

I'd rather stop using “states” and start talking about ”internal collaborators“. For example:

After discerning the classes that our game needs, we can now assign them responsibilities and internal collaborators:

Plural

Select the odd numbers between -20 and 45.

The goal is not computing efficiency but flexibility, scalability, simplicity, readability; that is, the goal is human efficiency.

Link to or mention the Cuis Smalltalk terse guide

Include a note about specific Cuis idioms, explain why they exist, and link to discussion and documentation: * backticks for compound literals * double colon as an alternative to parentheses * #[aFloat] for Float64Array * #[anInteger] for ByteArray

See the thread Language Constructs initiated by Erik Stel in the Cuis-dev mailing list in 2020-05; especially the answers by Juan Vuletich.

Backtick compound literals

... In some cases it can improve performance or reduce memory usage. But the deeper reason is to put all classes in equal footing with those privileged ones that are known by the Compiler.

More here

Maybe include a link to its usage in https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Back-to-Spacewar_0021-Morphs.html#index-backtick

At this point, where classes have not yet been discussed, maybe it is best to rewrite:

the object Transcript

the tradeoffs

This should go in the previous section Daily Workflow.

I submitted a PR

Oral History of Adele Goldberg, Computer History Museum, 10 May 2010 and its video recording at YouTube; and its artifact page at The CHM web site.

Maybe link to the search? https://github.com/search?q=Cuis-Smalltalk+-org%3ACuis-Smalltalk&type=repositories

Do we really need to read a discussion on the origin of this sentence?

If this is a rethorical device, I'd prefer to replace it.

Moved up to CharacterSequence. The categories are: fileman-converting, fileman-testing, and fileman-accessing.

“synch” is an alternative spelling sanctioned by dictionaries. I wouldn't mind using this expression colloquially but in the context of a book perhaps I can find a better way to rewrite this. Not very important.

This is an excellent opportunity to link to an official video showing how to use the debugger.

The mention of Morphs is pertinent as an example because they were discussed recently and moreover, because they are blatantly visible and reactive. The mention of “‘data objects’” between double quotes, on the other hand, doesn't bring much to the table and is potentially confusing.

Proposed alternative

As Morphs and objects in general, are able to present themselves to be inspected, so is Smalltalk’s runtime state also presentable.

Again, explain why do we have to send #doOneCycleNow once more.

As we changed several visual parts, we request one update cycle of the environment

Is not enough.

This is necessary for the changes to actually show. I'd add a footnote explaining why it is necessary.

This should go in the previous section The Package.

I submitted a PR.

Alternative implementation:

Smalltalk userInterface := UISupervisor ui. taskbar := userInterface taskbar. userInterface submorphs do: [:morph | morph delete] without: taskbar.

Change

Alternative 1

Observe how each category —regardless of wether it applies to a class or to a method— of an extension is prefixed with a *.

Alternative 2:

Observe how class categories and method categories of an extension are prefixed with a *.

I prefer the alternative 2.

Proposed change along these lines:

Now we are facing a problem: we extended the Integer class with #printStringToc, however, because we didn't categorize it properly, this method addition is by default part of the Cuis-Smalltalk core system and its associated default change set instead of being part of TheBook

This is an example of adding a requirement to a package but it is difficult to understand

proposed change to “version number”

Then the problem is not keeping backups, and not the fact that we are working with an image.

The underlying file system? If so, why is this pertinent? Unless for example the image file gets corrupted, but if that is the case, say that instead.

What does this mean?

substituted

The method category

Again, why basically?

Why basically?

Confusing paragraph. How does the first sentence relate to the second? How does the second relate to the third?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

All these could be a single footnote.

Why use “rect” as an abbreviation for rectangle? Is confusing since it has another meaning.

I don't see a need for two examples of #ifTrue:ifFalse.

Smalltalk divisors := [:m | (1 to: m) select: [:n | m isDivisibleBy: n]].

Yet, there ought to be better algorithms to compute divisors.

just sends the #allClasses message

TODO: Build the html from the texinfo sources locally in order to find out why there is an extra empty bullet point at the begining of this itemized list, and verify if this still happens.

Two-player game, singular!

SpaceWar! is a two-player game,

Observe how pi which was added last, is shown first, because of how Set >> #add: is implemented.

How to add ’Orange’ after ’Apple’ and before 2@1 in coll1?

or alternatively:

How to insert ’Orange’ between ’Apple’ and 2@1 in coll1?

Consider removal or rephrasing. Maybe rewiting ”For example, when searching...”, etc.

Missing article

and a block of code

This looks more like a comment by the author.

Why start with “Therefore”?

Unclear choice of words. Maybe: “to two different or to a single object”.

“depending computational history” is also unclear.

These are the messages an object knows how to respond to.

Alternatives

Using “that”

Tip. In the workspace Ctrl-b (Browse) on the class name will open a Browser on that class:

using “named”

Tip. In the workspace Ctrl-b (Browse) on the class name will open a Browser on the class named so:

Alternatives:

1

Tip. In the workspace Ctrl-b (Browse) on the class name will open a Browser on that class:

Tip. In the workspace Ctrl-b (Browse) on the class name will open a Browser on the class named so:

The original reads kind of funny. Besides that, #shuffled is a message, not a collection. This paragraph could be rewritten as follows:

Similarly as with #shuffled, all collections know how to answer #sorted with a sorted copy of themselves.

In the Spacewar! code snippet below, the parentheses aren't necessary but clarify that the addition happens first:

• Jesus and John Wayne
  • Book cover of Spanish Edition here:
    • https://www.amazon.com/Jes%C3%BAs-John-Wayne-Kristin-Kobes/dp/8412619889
  • Jesus nailed to a cross made of guns

Surendran Reddy's works

Surendran Reddy's biography

considering updating to 12th edition for all Abrams' citations

This chapter shows up as Chapter IV in the 1891 edition.

ZABROUSKI: Wilde added six additional chapters to the entire 1891 edition. The first 1891 chapter addition would be found here, in between this edition's Chapter II and Chapter III. The additional chapter, in summary, includes a scene between Lord Henry and his uncle, Lord George Fermor, in which Henry asks for any information regarding Dorian Gray. Uncle George tells Henry that he knew Dorian's mother, Lady Margaret Devereux, "intimately," and that she was a very beautiful woman. Lady Devereux had run off to marry some "penniless man," and, though tragic, Henry found it romantic. After learning about Dorian's wealthy parentage, Henry headed to his Aunt Agatha's house; on the way, he marveled about Dorian's backstory and beauty. Lawler mentions in his footnotes that "the scene at Aunt Agatha's house is one of the two social cameos Wilde added in the revised addition. The other comes late in the novel at Selby Royal. Each forms a background for another kind of dramatic action. In this scene, Henry's performance established his influence over Dorian's mind. The scene itself, however, foreshadows the success Wilde was soon to enjoy in the theatre" (34).

From LAWLER 177: Was "I would never leave him till either he or I were dead" in the original manuscript. Omitted completely from the 1891 text.

This chapter shows up as Chapter VI in the 1891 edition.

ZABROUSKI: Directly preceding this chapter, Wilde had added his second chapter addition, considered to be "Chapter V". The added chapter is told from Sibyl Vane's perspective, describing her excitement about the engagement with Dorian. Also in this chapter is the first mention of Sibyl's brother, James Vane, whom Wilde created in 1891. James will eventually become Dorian's unsuccessful nemesis.

From LAWLER 233: Wilde made extensive revisions to this paragraph in 1891, deleting two passages, "It is quite true... country" and "I quite admit... was with you," and adding as much as he removed. Carson made much of such passages during the first cross-examination of the libel trial.

From LAWLER 230: This was deleted in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Because of the typical stereotypes Victorian men and women were placed, readers would have viewed this characteristic as immoral effeminacy.

ZABROUSKI: Following this line, Wilde added another line of dialogue in 1891: The elder man buried his face in his hands. 'How fearful,' he muttered, and a shudder ran through him." Following this line of dialogue, Dorian continues as seen here.

From LAWLER 228: Wilde let this stand in 1891, but added Dorian's reply below that Sibyl had a brother (an invention of the revised edition).

From LAWLER 223: Changed to "during the last fortnight" in 1891.

From LAWLER 217: Following this question, Wilde originally had the following lines: "Where was he to hide it? It could not be left for common eyes to gaze at." He cancelled them in the typescript.

ZABROUSKI: Immediately preceding this paragraph, Wilde added the following paragraph in 1891: "In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge’s barge, that hung from the ceiling of the great, oak-panelled hall of entrance, lights were still burning from three flickering jets: thin blue petals of flame they seemed, rimmed with white fire. He turned them out and, having thrown his hat and cape on the table, passed through the library towards the door of his bedroom, a large octagonal chamber on the ground floor that, in his new-born feeling for luxury, he had just had decorated for himself and hung with some curious Renaissance tapestries that had been discovered stored in a disused attic at Selby Royal. As he was turning the handle of the door, his eye fell upon the portrait Basil Hallward had painted of him. He started back as if in surprise. Then he went on into his own room, looking somewhat puzzled. After he had taken the button-hole out of his coat, he seemed to hesitate. Finally, he came back, went over to the picture, and examined it. In the dim arrested light that struggled through the cream-coloured silk blinds, the face appeared to him to be a little changed. The expression looked different. One would have said that there was a touch of cruelty in the mouth. It was certainly strange."

From LAWLER 216: Added in the typescript.

ZABROUSKI: After these sentences, Wilde revised the rest of the paragraph in 1891: "Others crowded round the swinging doors of the coffee-house in the piazza. The heavy cart-horses slipped and stamped upon the rough stones, shaking their bells and trappings. Some of the drivers were lying asleep on a pile of sacks. Iris-necked and pink-footed, the pigeons ran about picking up seeds. After a little while, he hailed a hansom and drove home. For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent square, with its blank, close-shuttered windows and its staring blinds. The sky was pure opal now, and the roofs of the houses glistened like silver against it. From some chimney opposite a thin wreath of smoke was rising. It curled, a violet riband, through the nacre-coloured air."

From LAWLER 215: Wilde had originally had these lines in the typescript, but crossed them out before publication: "A man with curious eyes had suddenly peered into his face and then dodged him with stealthily footsteps, passing and repassing him many times." It is likely that Sibyl's avenging brother, James, added in 1891, may have originated here.

From LAWLER 215: Wilde added the following in 1891 to foreshadow: "Oh! Don't go away from me. My brother... No; never mind. He didn't mean it. He was in jest... But you, oh!"

From LAWLER 211: Changed to "the gods" in 1891.

From LAWLER 209: Changed to "tired" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Wilde added the following lines in 1891: "As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women. I will certainly encourage them. They have the charm of being fashionable."

From LAWLER 206: Wilde added several lines here in 1891: "Are you serious?" / "Quite serious, Basil. I should be miserable if I thought I should ever be more serious than I am at the present moment."

ZABROUSKI: This may just be a personal opinion, but I don't think adding that extra dialogue was necessary. However, I suppose the extra back and forth between Basil and Henry is meant to emphasize how beautiful Sybil is. Because there was no lead up to Basil asking Harry if he approves of the marriage, one may have argued that Basil was hinting at previous romantic relations between Harry and Dorian.

From LAWLER 206: Wilde changed these lines to "Hallward started, and then frowned." This change was to mute Basil's reaction.

From LAWLER 255: Changed to "9th" in 1891 and the birthday from the "thirty-second" to "thirty-eighth."

From TEMPLE: It's highly possible that Wilde changed Dorian’s age in the 1891 edition so that no one could argue that as a connection between them (they were both 32 at the time).

From LAWLER 259: Changed to "bad, and corrupt, and shameful" in 1891.

From LAWLER 259: Changed to "a staunch friend" in 1891.

From LAWLER 258: Wilde removed this sentence and added another section of dialogue 1891: “Stop, Basil. You are talking about things of which you know nothing,” said Dorian Gray, biting his lip, and with a note of infinite contempt in his voice. “You ask me why Berwick leaves a room when I enter it. It is because I know everything about his life, not because he knows anything about mine. With such blood as he has in his veins, how could his record be clean? You ask me about Henry Ashton and young Perth. Did I teach the one his vices, and the other his debauchery? If Kent’s silly son takes his wife from the streets, what is that to me? If Adrian Singleton writes his friend’s name across a bill, am I his keeper? I know how people chatter in England. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander. In this country, it is enough for a man to have distinction and brains for every common tongue to wag against him. And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” [New paragraph] “Dorian,” cried Hallward, “that is not the question. England is bad enough I know, and English society is all wrong. That is the reason why I want you to be fine. You have not been fine. One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends. Yours seem to lose all sense of honour, of goodness, of purity. You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there. Yes: you led them there, and yet you can smile, as you are smiling now. And there is worse behind. I know you and Harry are inseparable. Surely for that reason, if for none other, you should not have made his sister’s name a by-word.” [New paragraph] “Take care, Basil. You go too far.” [New paragraph] “I must speak, and you must listen. You shall listen."

From LAWLER 254: "Fourth chapter" was cancelled in the typescript. Wilde changed this to "seventh chapter" in 1891.

From LAWLER 254: Wilde changed this to "wonderful" in 1891.

From LAWLER 252: Changed to "Churchill" in 1891. The Carlton was a famous conservative political club located in Pall Mall.

From LAWLER 249: Wilde changed this to "Priest of the Sun" in 1891. Elagabalus was priest of the sun god at Emesa and later Roman emperor under the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

From LAWLER 248: Wilde changed this to "three hundred and four pearls" in 1891.

From LAWLER 245: Changed to "dalmatic" in 1891.

From LAWLER 241: Changed to "'Ah, you have discovered that?' murmured Lord Henry. And they passed into the dining room" in 1891.

From LAWLER 241: Changed to "Symbolistes" in 1891.

From LAWLER 240: Reduced to "away" in 1891.

From LAWLER 238: Wilde changed this line three times. In the typescript, there was another sort of pun in Dorian's reply: "There is a good deal of heaviness in modern art." In 1891, Wilde changed it again to the deliberately prosaic "I am afraid it is rather heavy," emphasizing a different mood entirely.

ZABROUSKI: While the original quote portrayed a fictional character's humor, the 1891 change seems to portray Wilde's personal struggle in publishing this book. This change may be alluding to the backlash Wilde received when Dorian Gray was first published. Thus, this darker, sadder, and overall more pessimistic tone would be bringing attention to Wilde's opinion on the debate between morality vs. art.

From LAWLER 234: This section was cut in 1891. Wilde's revision all but removed the comic side of Leaf's personality. Most of her dialogue and Dorian's replies were changed in both substance and tone. This is the lone instance when Wilde eclipsed a character or diluted a scene in his last revision.

From LAWLER 280: Wilde deleted this after changing "canvas" to "picture" in 1891.

From LAWLER 280: Wilde added this sentence in the typescript and added the following sentence in 1891: "It would kill this monstrous soul-life, and without its hideous warnings, he would be at peace."

From LAWLER 280: Wilde added five lines here in 1891: "...No. There had been nothing more. Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity's sake he had tried the denial of self. He recognized that now."

From LAWLER 279: Wilde added the following reference to Sibyl's brother here in 1891: "James Vane was hidden in a nameless grave in Selby churchyard."

From LAWLER 279: Wilde added two paragraphs here in 1891: Ah! in what a monstrous moment of pride and passion he had prayed that the portrait should bear the burden of his days, and he keep the unsullied splendour of eternal youth! All his failure had been due to that. Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not “Forgive us our sins” but “Smite us for our iniquities” should be the prayer of man to a most just God. [New paragraph] The curiously carved mirror that Lord Henry had given to him, so many years ago now, was standing on the table, and the white-limbed Cupids laughed round it as of old. He took it up, as he had done on that night of horror when he had first noted the change in the fatal picture, and with wild, tear-dimmed eyes looked into its polished shield. Once, some one who had terribly loved him had written to him a mad letter, ending with these idolatrous words: “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” The phrases came back to his memory, and he repeated them over and over to himself. Then he loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on the floor, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.

From LAWLER 278: Chapter 19 (1891) ends here.

From LAWLER 278: A dozen lines or so were added here in 1891, nearly half of which argue against art influencing human action: As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. But we won’t discuss literature. Come round to-morrow. I am going to ride at eleven. We might go together, and I will take you to lunch afterwards with Lady Branksome. She is a charming woman, and wants to consult you about some tapestries she is thinking of buying. Mind you come. Or shall we lunch with our little duchess? She says she never sees you now. Perhaps you are tired of Gladys? I thought you would be. Her clever tongue gets on one’s nerves. Well, in any case, be here at eleven.” [New paragraph] “Must I really come, Harry?” [New paragraph] “Certainly. The park is quite lovely now. I don’t think there have been such lilacs since the year I met you.”

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "are" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: This passage is connected to the previous paragraph in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "lilas blanc" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: In 1891, this paragraph begins with "Yes: you are the same. I wonder what..."

From LAWLER 276: Wilde added about four new pages here in 1891, beginning "what would you say, Harry" and ending with "given up our belief in the soul."

From LAWLER 276: Wilde added the following in 1891: "But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."

ZABROUSKI: Wilde changed this to "He remembered that the night before he had forgotten, for the first time in his life, to hide the fatal canvas, and was about to rush forward, when he drew back with a shudder" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "leering" in 1891.

From LAWLER 268: Wilde replaced these sentences and added the following: "This was the man Dorian Gray was waiting for. Every second he kept glancing at the clock. As the minutes went by he became horribly agitated. At last he got up and began to pace up and down the room, looking like a beautiful caged thing. He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold. [New paragraph] The suspense became unbearable. Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice. He knew what was waiting for him there; saw it, indeed, and, shuddering, crushed with dank hands his burning lids as though he would have robbed the very brain of sight and driven the eyeballs back into their cave. It was useless. The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. Then, suddenly, time stopped for him. Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone. [New paragraph] At last the door opened and his servant entered. He turned glazed eyes upon him."

From LAWLER 263: Wilde changed this from "in the uncertain gloom" in the typescript. In 1891, Wilde changed "as if in pain" to "to and fro."

From LAWLER 263: Wilde added to this sentence in 1891: "as though it had been suggested to him by the image on the canvas, whispered to his ear by those grinning lips."

ZABROUSKI: In 1891, Wilde added another sentence here: "You were to me such an ideal as I shall never meet again."

From LAWLER 262: Wilde changed "romance" to "ideal" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Reordered to "He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "completely passed away" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "mouth" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "spoiled" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "grinning" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "face" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "the painter's" in 1891.

From LAWLER 203: Changed to "Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Oh, Basil is the best of fellows, but he seems to me just a bit of a Philistine. Since I have known you, Harry, I have discovered that" in 1891.

A "Philistine" is a person who is indifferent to the culture or the arts (Oxford Dictionary). This alteration not only ties into Wilde's interest in aestheticism but more importantly detaches Basil from any romantic characteristics. Additionally, the following two lines of dialogue are deleted in the 1891 edition, which mutes the homoerotic undertones between Basil and Lord Henry; Lord Henry's comment that "[Basil] certainly has romance" provides insight that there was some sort of romantic relationship between the two. Furthermore, the fact that Henry asks Dorian if Basil has ever "let [him] know that" rather than "tell [him] that" also points to Basil's homosexuality. Because having any homosexual relations was illegal at the time, Henry's phrasing acts as an unspoken tip to Dorian. One could argue, then, that Basil, Lord Henry, and Dorian are homosexual. Another thing to note is that this particular deletion draws more attention to Basil's art rather than romantic relations. In this way, Wilde adds emphasis to the romance of art rather than homosexual romance.

From LAWLER 203: Originally, Dorian had asked whether "Basil has got a passion for somebody?" Lord Henry answered, "Yes, he has. Has he never told you?" This dialogue was cancelled, and Wilde wrote the changes in the margin.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Wilde added "He gives me good advice" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "I should not wonder if he was quite right there. But, on the other hand, judging from their appearance, most of them cannot be at all expensive" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "every one of them" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: This sentence was deleted in 1891.

From LAWLER 200: Was originally "your mistress," but Stoddart changed it. Wilde altered Stoddart's emendation in 1891, making it "I suppose she will belong to you some day."

ZABROUSKI: I found this specific change interesting, for it seems like such a minor alteration yet makes a big impact in the grand scheme of things. Lawler claimed that the 1891 alteration is "stronger" than what is here. Given the time this was published, that claim rings true; because Victorian women were typically viewed as property or arm candy rather than an actual partner, saying the phrase "belong to" would have been fitting for a heterosexual Victorian man.

From LAWLER 197: Stoddart changed the spelling from Wilde's "Sybil" here and throughout the text of this edition, and it remained "Sibyl" in the 1891 text.

From LAWLER 200: This is another of the series of bowdlerizations by Stoddart. This line was written by Wilde: "is Sybil Vane your mistress?" Stoddart simply rewrote it in its present form, and although Wilde made an addition in 1891, he did not restore the original reading."

From LAWLER 198: Wilde added this epigram to the typescript and followed it up with four additional sentences in 1891: "Faithfulness! I must analyze it someday. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

From LAWLER 198: Wilde added three more sentences here in 1891: "A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning."

From LAWLER 196: Wilde changed the perfume to frangipanni in 1891. Patchouli was a scent identified with London prostitutes.

From LAWLER 195: Wilde changed the number of photographs to "eighteen" for humorous effect in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology" in 1891.

From LALWER 194: Wilde dropped this sentence in 1891.

From LAWLER 192: Wilde dropped Henry's question and Basil's answer in 1891.

From LAWLER 191: Wilde change this to "dreadful" in 1891.

From LAWLER 186: Wilde changed his word to "influences" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Hallward" in 1891.

From LAWLER 184: Wilde added the following epigram in 1891: "It is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it."

From LAWLER 184: Deleted in 1891.

From LAWLER 183: Changed to "who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Cut in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "He pictured to himself with silent amusement" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love:" in 1891.

From LAWLER 182: Changed to "What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic" in 1891.

From LAWLER 181: Wilde dropped this sentence from the 1891 text together with the phrase "walk home together from the club arm in arm" from the next sentence.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Oh, something like, 'Charming boy--poor dear mother and I absolutely inseparable. Quite forget what he does--afraid he--doesn't do anything--oh, yes, plays the piano--or is it the violin, dear Mr. Gray?' Neither of us could help laughing, and we became friends at once" in 1891.

The phrase "engaged to be married to the same man--I mean married on the same day" suggests that Dorian was engaged to a man, and in accidentally sharing that piece of information, Lady Brandon attempts to correct herself. The 1891 text omits that phrase completely, for readers may have pointed out the homosexual undertone in the 1890 edition.

From LAWLER 181: Wilde altered this paragraph in every revision.

ZABROUSKI: In the 1891 version, Wilde wrote, “Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him. He knows nothing about it. He shall never know anything about it. But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry—too much of myself!” In the original manuscript, Wilde had (after "But the world might guess it") "where there is merely love, they would see something evil. Where there is spiritual passion, they would suggest something vile." If Wilde kept those two sentences in, it could be assumed that critics would have used it as fuel for their argument on what constitutes a moral vs immoral book.

ZABROUSKI: Wilde added "Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for and always missed" to the end of this paragraph in 1891.

LAWLER 180: From the original manuscript, Wilde deleted "and as he leaned across to look at it, his lips touched my hand. The world becomes young to me when I hold his hand..." In 1891, Wilde added another sentence here (which I transcribed above) emphasizing Dorian's influence over Basil's art.

ZABROUSKI: Deleted in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "a model or a sitter" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "sketch from him" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "He is absolutely necessary to me" in 1891.

From LAWLER 180: This change omits the homoerotic overtones.

From LAWLER 180: Was moved by Wilde to another context (in Chapter IX) in 1891.

From LAWLER 180: Wilde revised the dialogue above in 1891, leaving out "worship" and muting the homoerotic overtones.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "The masses" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "orders" in 1891.

From LAWLER 179: Wilde altered details here and in the preceding two paragraphs in 1891.

From LAWLER 178: Another epigram Wilde touched up a little in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Wilde changed this sentence and added more dialogue in the 1891 text.

"She either explains them entirely away, or tells one everything about them except what one wants to know."

"Poor Lady Brandon! You are hard on her, Harry!" said Hallward, listlessly.

"My dear fellow, she tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant. How could I admire her? But tell me, what did she say about Mr. Dorian Gray?"

From LAWLER 178: Wilde made several stylistic changes in the preceding eight lines in the 1891 text.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "Hallward shook his head" in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "'Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,' said the young lad, plucking another daisy" in 1891.

From LAWLER 178: Removed from 1891 text.

From LAWLER 178: Was originally "beauty had so stirred me."

From LAWLER 177: Deleted in 1891.

From LAWLER 176: Several stylistic changes made here in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Changed to "A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings" in 1891.

From LAWLER 176: Wilde deleted "that had charmed all the poets from Chaucer to Tennyson" from his manuscript and modified the style of the epigram following 1891.

From LAWLER 176: This sentence and Henry's "I must" deleted in 1891.

From LAWLER 177: Opening lines of this paragraph deleted in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: "and... speak" changed to "and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush" in 1891.

From LAWLER 175: "shaking... off" deleted in 1891.

From LAWLER 175: "laying... shoulder" deleted in 1891. This is the first of many such deletions or rewrites eliminating descriptions of physical contact suggestive of homoerotic behavior.

From LAWLER 175: Changed to "art" in 1891.

From LAWLER 174: Changed to "a mode of exaggeration" in 1891.

From LAWLER 174: Changed to "as a natural consequence" in 1891.

From LAWLER 174: Wilde wrote Coulson Kernahan, editor of the revised edition of Ward, Lock and Company, asking that he "look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof," explaining that his "usage was not Celtic English" (Letters 289).

From LAWLER 174: This last sentence was omitted in 1891.

ZABROUSKI: Refined to "through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile" in 1891.

From LAWLER 173: Changed to "round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine," in 1891.

From LAWLER 173: Changed to "as was his custom" in 1891.

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