Fun Fact: Apparently Oscar Wilde was 6’3”, which in the 1870s would have been the equivalent of like 6’7”-6’9” tall. He was so ridiculously huge and awkward that one of his friends described him as looking like a “great white caterpillar.” That is all.
When his lover’s father ( one of the founding father’s of boxing as a sport) showed up to kick his ass, Oscar stood up, pulled a gun and said something like
“I don’t know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight.”
The more I find out about Oscar Wilde the more delighted I am.
I heard that Wilde once dealt without a bully at Oxford by picking him up, carrying him back to his (the bully’s room), stacking furniture on him so he couldn’t move, breaking into his liquor cabinet and serving drinks to all the students who’d gathered to watch what was going on.
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