This is my every-day-bla-bla blog. I write on it whenever and whatever I want. I started it when my parents moved away, so they could keep up with my day to day life.
A buttonhole is the flower worn in the buttonhole of a jacket. Oscar Wilde, Lord Goring and I prefer a trivial one, because life is too important to ever take seriously.
The blog title comes from the following exchange in An Ideal Husband between Lord Goring and his man. There is so much in this one exchange that I lurv, I can't begin to describe it.
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| Shaw Festival 2010 |
LORD GORINGRather distinguished thing, Phipps. I am the only person of the smallest importance in London at present who wears a buttonhole.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord. I have observed that,
LORD GORING
[Taking out old buttonhole.] You see, Phipps, Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord.
LORD GORING
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord.
LORD GORING
[Putting in a new buttonhole.] And falsehoods the truths of other people.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord.
LORD GORING
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord.
LORD GORING
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance, Phipps.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord.
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| Rupert Everett as Lord Goring |
[Looking at himself in the glass.] Don't think I quite like this buttonhole, Phipps. Makes me look a little too old. Makes me almost in the prime of life, eh, Phipps?
PHIPPS
I don't observe any alteration in your lordship's appearance.
LORD GORING
You don't, Phipps?
PHIPPS
No, my lord.
LORD GORING
I am not quite sure. For the future a more trivial buttonhole, Phipps, on Thursday evenings.
PHIPPS
I will speak to the florist, my lord. She has had a loss in her family lately, which perhaps accounts for the lack of triviality your lordship complains of in the buttonhole.
LORD GORING
Extraordinary thing about the lower classes in England - they are always losing their relations.
PHIPPS
Yes, my lord! They are extremely fortunate in that respect.
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