Status Updates From Importance of Being Earnest...

I'm done with the first act and already in love with all of it. Will try falling asleep; if I failed at that, I'll probably finish it this very night.

ALL WOMEN BECOME LIKE THEIR MOTHERS. THAT IS THEIR TRAGEDY. NO MAN DOES. THAT'S HIS.

Jack: would you love me if I was a worm?
Gwen: but you're not a worm.
Jack: I k n o w b u t w o u l d y o u

Apparently "the amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous".

Nvm a reading slump, I'm having a BLAST! Forgot just how fun Wilde could be when he put his amazing little mind to it.

Oh PLEASE somebody explain to me WHY, OH, why MODERN CULTURE of all things "isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private"??? Is sociology too homoerotic for these Victorian gentlemen? Two best friends in a room, discussing modern culture, they might kiss...?

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
My dear Mr. Wilde why in the world do you think you would say that?! I mean, I know I couldn't think of the reason.