Author of quotes: Alexander Kazakevich

At a literary evening among the guests were two celebrities: George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Soon after meeting they started a casual conversation, which very soon escalated into a fundamental dispute. The author of "Pygmalion" argued that the playwrights of the realist, that is, his vocabulary is much richer than that of the playwrights of the romantic period, that is Wilde. The author of "the Ideal husband" has challenged this view and suggested in evidence to think and write on paper synonyms to some stable phrase. For example, "pretty woman." Writers shook hands and went to work. A quarter of an hour the judges of the several journalists who attended the evening, having studied the papers of each of the playwrights, announced the decision: victory romance with a clear advantage. If the Show managed to only come up with 35 of synonymous phrases, the Wilde - 59! Show, not believing, wildavsky grabbed the sheet and read through a text, slowly raised his dim eyes on a friendly smile Wilde. Shaw took a breath, then knelt down on one knee and, with a theatrical hand on his heart, exclaimed: "With admiration I bow down before your genius, my dear Wilde! To be honest, I was absolutely sure that in our literature there is only one genius. But, as I just found out that, apparently, we two." Wilde, laughing, held out his hand the second genius.