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Willow Pattern Requiem

“I’m finding it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china” Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s only grandson Merlin Holland remarked that as an undergraduate at Oxford, Oscar caused some controversy in decorating his room with blue pottery and peacock feathers.

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Willow Pattern Requiem

elegy for an aesthete

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