subject: and where did this come from...?
mood: better
music: the sophomores talking about fantasy football
CPCetc: pondering the works of a random english authour
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Oh, dear sweet Lord I love Oscar Wilde. I don't even know why. But I do! The love I have for that man cannot be measured in pints or stones. Jesus, I love him so much. Birth name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde. That has got to be one of the greatest names ever. Oh, Irishmen, I love you... *rapes random Irish bystander*

His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in an American magazine in 1890 to a storm of critical protest. He expanded the story and had it published in book form the following year. Its implied homoerotic theme was considered very immoral by the Victorians and played a considerable part in his later legal trials.

The man wrote in The Woman's World magazine for God's sake! How could you not love him?? That and he died of complications from an ear infection. Which seems terribly endearing somehow. If anyone has a copy of Dorian Gray, I'd appreciate you letting me steal it. Sorry, I'm OC when it comes to reading things in volumes...


In the summer of 1891, Oscar met Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry. Bosie was well acquainted with Oscar's novel Dorian Gray and was an undergraduate at Oxford. They soon became lovers and were inseparable until Wilde's arrest four years later. In April 1895, Oscar sued Bosie's father for libel as the Marquis had accused him of homosexuality. Oscar withdrew his case but was himself arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labor. Constance took the children to Switzerland and reverted to an old family name, "Holland."

There isn't any point to this. I just wanted to present a massive memorial to my one-true-love, despite the fact that he is a)dead and b)gay. But these things are possible!! (no... they aren't...)

Kiri! >^.^< ~mew