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Of course I was sensual and curious, as boys are, and had the usual boy imaginings; but I did not indulge in them excessively. "At Portora nine out of ten boys only thought of football or cricket or rowing. Nearly every one went in for athletics running and jumping and so forth; no one appeared to care for sex. We were healthy young barbarians and that was all." "Did you go in for games?" I asked.
It is love alone which in later life can achieve such a miracle of representment. I am very glad to be allowed to publish this realistic miniature, in the very words of the author. "I first met Oscar Wilde in the early part of 1868 at Portora Royal School. He was thirteen or fourteen years of age. His long straight fair hair was a striking feature of his appearance.
"It was some little time before he left Portora that the boys got to know of his full name, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Just at the close of his school career he won the 'Carpenter' Greek Testament Prize, and on presentation day was called up to the dais by Dr. Steele, by all his names much to Oscar's annoyance; for a great deal of schoolboy chaff followed.
Learning is a sad handicap, Frank, an appalling handicap," and he laughed irresistibly. "What were the students like in Dublin?" I asked. "Did you make friends with any of them?" "They were worse even than the boys at Portora," he replied; "they thought of nothing but cricket and football, running and jumping; and they varied these intellectual exercises with bouts of fighting and drinking.
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