![]() ![]() Martyrs don’t usually admit to feeling “sickened” by accounts of their own behavior, and any ambiguities or contradictions in their personalities tend to be glossed over by their hagiographers. The point is, who says it.” At the critical moment, he was able to transform the drama in his imagination by taking both roles, substituting the real Lockwood with an alternative Wilde, one who could control the courtroom and its narrative. ![]() I saw then at once that what is said of a man is nothing. But the sensation was short-lived: “Suddenly it occurred to me, How splendid it would be, if I was saying all this about myself. ![]() He was “sickened with horror” at what he heard. His catalogue of accusations, shot through with moral disgust, struck Wilde as an “appalling denunciation”-“like a thing out of Tacitus, like a passage in Dante,” as he wrote two years later. It was a Saturday in May, 1895, the final day of his trial for “gross indecency,” and the solicitor general, Frank Lockwood, was in the midst of a closing address for the prosecution. Oscar Wilde was in the dock when he observed himself becoming two people. ![]()
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