Cozette’s Corner, LMST 345 Fall 2020

Where to start, where to start... Oscar Wilde certainly does a lot with the narrative of  Dorian Gray , commenting on topics spanning from the paramount frivolities of the post-Victorian British upper class to how not only complacently but willingly  one can be in facilitating the corruption of one’s own soul. The presence of society’s moral decay present in The Picture of Dorian Gray  is something still saturating consumed literature, something that has always saturated literature, and something that will always  saturate literature, unless this modern plague turns out to be the thing to finally make each man a hermit and completely collapse global infrastructure back to pre-recorded history, which. We are not there quite yet , so. Let’s talk instead about the one who plants the seed of temptation’s rot in Dorian and nurtures it in hedonistic aestheticism- Lord Henry Wotton. Now, Henry isn’t the root of all evil. He’s certainly a bad influence and a gateway of temptations, but influen

H  e  l  l  o h  e l l o!! Te  s t i  n g 1, 2, 3, testing. Am I com  i n g  t h r o  u gh to y o u ? I sure hope I a m , I’ve   l o t s  t  o say and not a moment to lose.   T  e s  t i n g  ,  testing 1, 2 , 3. C’mon, c’mon already, please?  Pretty please? Helloooooo? ....It’s working now, yes? Yes. Good, then. What am I here for? What do you mean ‘ what am I here for ’? I’m here for the same reason everyone else who finds themselves ensconced responsibly in critical, creative thinking and a healthy cultivation of boredom: to talk about books. Obviously.