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6 months ago
I would love to visit this!
How to visit Oscar wilde's Grave
It made me
a little sad 
"touching"
How I did it: I was in Paris and had a few things on my to-do list. One of them was going to Pere Lachaise and seeing some of the graves.
The cemetary is HUGE and lovely respite from Paris's streets. I was there in summer and it was green and it was morning so the world was still fresh and dewy.
We wandered around a bit and finally asked the caretaker where it was, he gave us a map and voila -- Oscar Wilde.
Lessons & tips: Get a map
Bring a copy of De Profundis and read it out loud.
Don't kiss his gravestone, even though it is covered, it is damaging the stone.
Resources: The people who publish those $2 classics
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13 months ago
Hm.. On second thought, I will not kiss his grave. Not because of the vandalism-thing (I am a teenager, so I have no sence of decency anyway), but because of my OCD, which would go bananas if I got any closer than three feet from that bacteria-farm. I will however leave some flowers and maybe a note, written in my first language. (I don’t want anyone to understand, and the odds of someone from the same country visiting, and picking up MY note of all the notes are pretty slim. Also, I figure in Heaven, Oscar can understand swedish.)
Cowgalutah is sure that this diet will work!
Reading Oscar Wilde
14 months ago
While reading his book ‘the picture of Dorian Grey’ I found an intrest and read up on him. I would love to visit Paris and kiss his headstone like hundreds of others.
LOVE this man.
15 months ago
I recently bought a compilation of everything Oscar Wilde’s ever written…and I’m loving every page. He had to be one of the wittiest, most insightful, audacious, & revolutionary thinkers of his time. I’d love to pay my respects someday.
QUESTION: Do you think he’d see the whole kissing thing as disrespectful, as his grandson seems to think so? Go here to read his angry comment about the “vulgar” grave kisses: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=817900
Personally, I don’t know. I had the impression that he’d get a laugh out of it. One would think a man as rebellious as Wilde, who was the British embodiment of the decadent & aesthetic movements (in opposition to overly uptight Victorian moralism, for goodness sake!), wouldn’t take such offense at these obvious acts of love. Hmm.
spookie is still keeping her head above water
adoration or disrespect?
2 years ago
I hate to sound like an old lady, but vandalism is vandalism no matter what the intentions. The tomb of Oscar Wilde is covered in greasy marks from where lipstick has lost its colour, and scribblings from visitors from all over the world – “WE LOVE YOU OSCAR!”. Very nice, now please stop defacing my gravestone, darling.
Grumblings aside, the whole cemetary is worth a trip to. Jim Morrison’s buried here, and there’s the tomb of Héloise and Abelard, medieval lovers who paid dearly for their indiscretions.
