Essay Test: Take a Walk on the Wilde Side

The following essay was written in response to the question: Do you have a favorite author or book? Who or what is it and why?

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WHO am I aware of the quotation and its critique of quotes and therefore escape SAID “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” THIS? And in this case does my quote of this quote AND THIS “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”  create an ironic space safe enough to save me from the temptation to APPROPRIATE “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” Or is this too simply too derivative or true that “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” But does this mean this is my life or my LINE or my play, BUT that “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” By whom and for whom and for WHAT and yet “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” For all or for those chosen FEW, who, like me because “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” like me and yet know or maybe DO not, like me, know “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, NOT the invisible....” will call up such sentimental elitism, a JUDGE whose laws are simply, differently, difficultly “Words! Mere WORDS! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet AS that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so REAL AS words?” except the world or you accept THIS WORLD written and ““If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.” Then have I done this too, to myself and you?

Rate this essay, from 1-5 with five being the highest. What rating did you give and why?

Does this essay make sense?

Do you know that creative non-fiction is the fastest growing genre being taught in writing departments in the US?

Do you think this essay demonstrates intellectual promise?

Can an essay be too creative or too risky?

Do you think undergraduate admission officers would appreciate an essay like this? Should they?

Have you learned anytining about the writer based uon thse words and if so what is it?

Can language function on different levels simultaneously? Must language function this way? 

Given the appropriation of music, images and words in media does this piece fit in with the new “sampling culture” we live in? If so, does this piece comment on this culture or merely imitate it?