Heretics · Character
Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright and wit, referenced in discussions of aestheticism.
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First appearance: heretics
Oscar Wilde shows up with force in I: Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited as an example of society feting a man for preaching an immoral attitude and then punishing him for practicing it.
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In I: Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy: Cited as an example of society feting a man for preaching an immoral attitude and then punishing him for practicing it. Later, in VII: Omar and the Sacred…
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