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Inorganic Lord Rosiel Captain
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 Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:59 pm
I would like to introduce you to a story that's fascinated me for some time now. I've yet to be able to read the real thing but the story sounds simply intriguing. This is The Picture of Dorian Gray:
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfillment of the senses. Realising that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian cries out, wishing that the portrait Basil has painted of him would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, subsequently plunging him into a sequence of debauched acts. For example, if he were to commit murder, the hands of the painting would be drenched in blood to remind him of his crime.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:08 pm
That is a VERY interesting story line.... That sounds very good. Who is the author? I wonder what kind of mess that will get him into lol wow
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Clouds_Lover Vice Captain
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Inorganic Lord Rosiel Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:09 pm
The author is Oscar Wilde.
Doesn't the story sound like something Kaori Yuki would write about?
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:22 pm
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Clouds_Lover Vice Captain
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Inorganic Lord Rosiel Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:15 pm
So your soul would be a rose lit on fire eh?
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:21 pm
Yeah, pretty much. A thorny rose on fire....
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Clouds_Lover Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:46 pm
LXG ripped off the story of Dorian Gray by using the character for some diabolical scheme of mass destruction and yada, yada...
But I like how the magic of the painting works... Very interesting. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:11 pm
Yeah I heard about that, I wanted to see how the story would come up in the movie but I never really got the chance to see it yet.
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Inorganic Lord Rosiel Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:19 pm
wow... dude that sounds really interesting indeed! sounds like one heke of a book so! but alas... it'll take me 3 months to read. lol well depending on thickness.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:11 pm
Yeah, I've been wanting to read it since forever but I can never seem to find it. So if anyone has the book and would be willing to loan it to me, I'd be very grateful.
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