On the Contrary

I love contradictory descriptions.

This helps explain my life-long complete adoration of Oscar Wilde.

"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain."

The Importance of Being Earnest.

I recently watched The Picture of Dorian Gray.
A movie made from my favorite book with one my favorite actors (Colin Firth).

They used that line and I still don’t know what I think about that.
Wrong Oscar Wilde work – but it’s still delightfully cheeky to incorporate it in…. anyway that’s a side note.

Back to my love of contradictory descriptions. Everyone has heard Crazy by Gnarles Barkley. I inexplicably came into ownership of the entire album, St. Elsewhere,
for free.
I fell truly madly deeply in love.
Here are some of the lyrics that make me go weak at the knees:

Basically I'm complicated
I have a hard time taking the easy way…..

….It's deep how you can be so shallow
And I'm afraid cause I have no fear

-Who Cares. Gnarles Barkley

When J.R.R.Tolkien describes Samwise’s first sighting of the oliphaunt I about died:

“To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight….”

I mean come on…. 

I think I’ll send out a mass text questions asking “what two seemingly contradictory adjectives would you positively relish in being described as?”

My answer: Ethereal and Down-to-Earth.