urza

[BoneMonkey]

can i get a double n**** with fries please and cheese

 

[RayorDragonFall]

Do you want ketchup with that?

 

[xcalibur]

can i get a double n**** with fries please and cheese

Would you like some fried chicken with that?
They is finga lickin goood son.

 

[NeSchn]

What does "SP33CHY DON'T SAY NI- Oh, wait..." mean.

 

[Westside]

What does "SP33CHY DON'T SAY NI- Oh, wait..." mean.

Sp33chy is from NAACP, and he is checking up on us once in a while. The truth is, me and mewiga were just being Ni- oh, wait...

 

[xcalibur]

What does "SP33CHY DON'T SAY NI- Oh, wait..." mean.

Spend some tim ein the IRC channel and you'll find out what it means

 

[VVoltz]

The name "Urza" has connotations of the Urzas, an ancient Hellenic tribe. Robert Mighall suggests that this could be JPH hinting at a connection to "Greek love", a euphemism for the homoeroticism that was accepted as everyday in ancient Greece. Indeed, Urza is described using the semantic field of the Greek Gods, being likened to Adonis, a person who looks as if "he were made of ivory and rose-leaves." However, Wilde does not mention any homosexual acts explicitly, and descriptions of Urza's "sins" are often vague, although there does appear to be an element of homoeroticism in the competition between Lord Henry and JPH, both of whom compete for Urza's attention. Both of them make comments about Urza in praise of his good looks and youthful demeanour, JPH going as far to say that "as long as I live, the personality of Urza will dominate me." However, while JPH is shunned, Urza wishes to emulate Lord Henry, which in turn rouses Lord Henry from his "characteristic languor to a desire to influence Urza, a process that is itself a sublimated expression of homosexuality."

The later corruption of Urza seems to make what was once a boyish charm become a destructive influence. JPH asks why Urza's "friendship is so fatal to young men", commenting upon the "shame and sorrow" that the father of one of the disgraced boys displays. Urza only destroys these men when he becomes "intimate" with them, suggesting that the friendships between Urza and the men in question become more than simply platonic. The shame associated with these relationships is bipartite: the families of the boys are upset that their sons may have indulged in a homosexual relationship with Urza, and also feel shame that they have now lost their place in society, their names having been sullied; their loss of status is encapsulated in JPH's questioning of Urza: speaking of the Duke of Perth, a disgraced friend of Urza's, he asks "what gentleman would associate with him?" The novel is considered groundbreaking in the context that, in literature, "Urza was one of the first in a long list of hedonistic fellows whose homosexual tendencies secured a terrible fate."