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To: Red Badger

Isn’t the epitaph on Oscar Wilde’s tombstone “Go Away”?


13 posted on 06/15/2022 10:01:15 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: M1903A1

No, it’s a verse from ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ written after he was released.

But the tradition of kissing the stone and leaving lipstick marks has caused them to put up some kind of barrier so people can’t do that. The lipstick was damaging it.


22 posted on 06/15/2022 10:35:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: M1903A1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde%27s_tomb


25 posted on 06/15/2022 10:39:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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