That meme

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I'm doing my best to catch up on my flist and came across this meme a few times. So... Why not?

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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Where did your interest in Oscar Wilde start?

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That is a serious question to which the answer is partly embarrassing. My first encounter with Wilde was via The Importance of Being Earnest, because (*blushes*) it was the shortest text on our sixth year reading list. When I was in secundary school, I hated the classics of literature and lived on a diet of fantasy. Wilde was also more appealing than the average author on our reading list because of his trials and sentence for 'gross indecency'.

But I only really started to, well, shamelessly fangirl Wilde when one day, while browsing in my father's copy of the Complete Works, I happened to spot an instance in which Wilde refers to himself as Celtic - that was in De Profundis. I was at that point quite besotted with everything Irish and Celtic, and Wilde seemed to fit in that picture. Shortly afterwards I was in Paris and visited his grave at Père Lachaise. When I told a friend at university about my trip, she borrowed me H. Montgomery Hyde's biography of Wilde, and that was the beginning of an everlasting love affair ;-)... I hope that by writing a doctoral thesis I have sort of made up for the sordid beginnings XD.