I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

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Max Beerbohm, in a remarkably insightful review in Vanity Fair, specifically took on the De Profundis is radically different reading of Wilde: "Some of the critics, wishing to reconcile present enthusiasm with past indifference. . . have been suggesting that De Profundis is quite unlike any previous work of Oscar Wilde - a quite sudden and unrelated phenomenon.

In fact, [Harry] Meyerson had Slim Hyatt, the disquaire (disk jockey) at Shepheards, assist him in programming the album.