#aesthetic

Dorian Gray lost chapter where he pays several thousand dollars in indulgences to his local priest and comes home to find the painting has reset.

basil hallward is braver than any us marine

If Basil, Lord Henry and Dorian are all based off Wilde, (“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”), does that mean that Dorian killing Basil means that who Wilde wished he was triumphed over who he is, and that Lord Henry lived longer than both Basil and Dorian means that what the world thinks of Wilde will be how he is remembered? 

Wilde’s writing style fascinates me, because although he’s frequently accused of writing in purple prose (this being a staple of Aestheticism/Decadence), he actually writes in a much clearer, more succinct way than his contemporary Realists, such as Hardy

Fun Fact: Apparently Oscar Wilde was 6’3”, which in the 1870s would have been the equivalent of like 6’7”-6’9” tall. He was so ridiculously huge and awkward that one of his friends described him as looking like a “great white caterpillar.” That is all.

When his lover’s father ( one of the founding father’s of boxing as a sport) showed up to kick his ass, Oscar stood up, pulled a gun and said something like  “I don’t know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight.”