[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(23-11-2010 05:00 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  Maybe it's meant to describe that Wilde created Dorian like Darsharvain created Lucas?

I just get the feeling it might be a bit more complicated than that, seeing as Dasharvin seems to have a love of literature - when him and Lucas meet for the first time in 8.4, he remarks "So, this is Dicken's country." So I'm assuming Wilde/Grey are used for a specific reason relating to the context of the author and book... I'm just not quite sure what, haha. I seem to remember Wilde being a fairly controversial figure in his time?

Wikipedia Wrote:The first version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was published as the lead story in the July 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, along with five others. The story begins as Gray's portrait is being completed, and he talks with the libertine Lord Henry Wotton, who has a curious influence on him. When Gray, who has a "face like ivory and rose leaves" sees his finished portrait he breaks down, distraught that his beauty will fade, but the portrait stay beautiful, inadvertently making a faustian bargain. For Wilde, the purpose of art would guide life if beauty alone were its object. Thus Gray's portrait allows him to escape the corporeal ravages of his hedonism, (and Miss Prism mistakes a baby for a book in The Importance of Being Earnest), Wilde sought to juxtapose the beauty he saw in art onto daily life.

Is there some sort of connection there? Seems odd, unless Dasharvin was using Wilde's name ironically...