a protean fool

It’s a satire of the Aesthetic movement and of Oscar Wilde in particular, and a quote on the base references Wilde’s quote, “I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.” 

i know my parents loved me. but i think they loved me all wrong.

Dori me, interimo adepare dori me Ameno, ameno, latire, latire mo Dori me

what this was supposed to communicate to me was “saint valentine would marry young men to their girlfriends in secret as a priest at his own risk and thats why we celebrate valentines day” 

what i got out of it was “saint valentine married a shitton of dudes so he could protect his army of husbands from having to go to war and it was beautiful and love can halt war in its tracks and thats why we celebrate valentines day”

and thats why the assumption that a child would automatically get a hetero interpretation of the story and the innate unclarity of the english language made me think that valentines day was about mass gay poly marriage until i was like fourteen and recited the story to a friend who stared at me like id grown three extra heads