“Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without personality disorders?”

How many Libby (or other various library options) holds are you currently waiting on??? (Curious to see if anyone panic holds every book ever just for them to be suspended for weeks… currently at 24🫢)

I've seen a few posts where the audience is assumed to be American and it made me curious about how many users are actually American? Objectively speaking it makes sense that the majority is but I wish there was a statistic for it (just out of curiosity).

“Why, my dear Basil he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that. But beauty, real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins.”

Well if this is a challenge to not be an asshole, Lord Henry’s failed it at least twice, and we’re not even twenty pages in yet 😂😂

My edition of this book came with a biography and timeline which I had a terrific time digging into (there's also an Introduction but I'll leave that to the end). I didn't know all that much about Oscar Wilde so it was really nice to get enough information to position this book within the context of his life.

I also just loveee me some gossip - you're telling me he wrote this just before meeting his 💕lover💕 Lord Alfred Douglas, it was said lover's FATHER who landed Wilde in jail, but only because Wilde kicked off legal drama by suing him FIRST for passing a note calling him gay (which like, was accurate), and then while in prison he wrote De Profundis to/for Douglas? I'm gonna need to dig into this all more after I read bc that's juicy and criminally unfortunately was not spotlighted during my English classes??