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17344421 No.17344421 [Reply] [Original]

Give it t me straight, is this fag actually worth reading?

>> No.17344428

Yes

>> No.17344429

>>17344421
The Importance of Being Earnest is the funniest thing I've ever read and The Ballad of Reading Gaol is quite moving. I haven't read anything else from him though.

>> No.17344441

>>17344421
Do you like overblown, boy-thirsty prose masquerading as aesthetic contemplation? Or how about some repackaged platitudes that seem like witty aphorisms, but fall apart into dust upon closer inspection? If so, you betcha!

>> No.17344458

>>17344421
Yes, but Dorian Gray is overrated imo. A lot of his poetry is also quite mannered.

>> No.17344475

>>17344441
use even more adjectives next time, C-

>> No.17344488

>>17344475
Fuck you!

>> No.17344739
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17344739

>>17344441
>Do you like overblown, boy-thirsty prose

>> No.17344825

>>17344421
No it's just midwit faggotry. Say it with me
>Wilde
>is
>not
>a
>canonical
>author

>> No.17344836

>>17344825
You don't have to like him but he's canonical as a novelist, playwright, and poet.

>> No.17344861

>>17344825
Nigger, you get a double first in classics from an Oxbridge college and you are canon regardless of any other worth.