The Options of Dorian Gray!

[depicted]

[Let's get this started, kids]

[Dorian can be found about town in the usual places: pubs, opium dens, and brothels in Limehouse and Bluegate Fields; aristocratic parties and clubs in Mayfair and St James's; theatres and opera houses in the West End.]

[You can greet him, or you can catch his attention (accidentally or not). He is running out of obsessions in London. Something different is always interesting to him.]

[Will you A) hang out at the parties of the rich and the fabulous, B) hang out in all the most sordid parts of London, or C) go enjoy some art at theatres, music halls, opera houses, or art galleries?]

[OR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Go for it, kids.]

Comments

[depicted]

I would, but I don't know if I'd get an answer. From either of them.

[He's not on speaking terms with God and the Devil is kind of . . . kind of buttfurious with him for not killing himself, basically. LOOK HE IS NOT GOING TO STAB HIS PAINTING HE IS NOT THAT MUCH OF AN IDIOT wait to pick up his soul, Satan, he's not done living yet.]

[hariolor]

They're not terribly appreciative of the arts, it's true.

[That is totally an innocent statement and in no way at all like Raziel knows them personally. Totally.]

[depicted]

That is a heartbreaking thought, with half the body of Western art being devoted to one and several fine masterworks, including a poem by Milton, serving in tribute to the other.

[hariolor]

Such is the great irony of humanity, I suppose; devotion and admiration of beings that couldn't care less for it.

It plays out among actions to other humans too, doesn't it? To be able to love freely seems like quite a painful gift.