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"When John Peel, who had once had a sexually transmitted infection, suggested that it was a common affliction and that many people in the courtroom might have had one, Argyle took umbrage at the ‘very great accusation’ and later had Peel’s water glass destroyed."

"The author repeatedly tried to counter suggestions of indecency by appealing to the purity of art.[...] an affectionate letter to Douglas [...] was a prose poem. When Carson asked him to discuss the letter ‘apart from art’, Wilde said, ‘I cannot answer any question apart from art’ and quipped, to the amusement of the gallery, ‘A man who was not an artist could never have written that letter.’"