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Just finished the Librivox recording of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This was a dramatic performance by very good readers, although the volume of the audio tended to vary considerably from speaker to speaker.
Wilde always created worlds of the type that are always interesting places to visit, but in which few would want to live. Likewise, most of his characters are people I'd love to know as long as I didn't have to live with them. The feeling that every witticism one encounters must be parried with an equally clever witticism would, after a while, become unbearably tedious. It's much better to see such people at a social gathering and be entertained by their charm and clever conversation, then go home to rest and leave them to dazzle others with their wit.
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