Status Updates From Το πορτραίτο του Ντόριαν Γκρέι

This is dome Black Swan stuff “stabbed the canvas, ripping the thing from top to bottom. There was a cry heard and a crash.”
“They found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master… lying on the floor was a dead man… He was withered wrinkled and loathsome in visage” the servants couldn’t even recognize him!

Intrigued by both prefaces to the story. I have not read this book since high school and certainly was not framed to read it within these contexts.

It’s weird to know the dynamic of the actual words written “sin, sin… dreadful places” but the sins are not described in detail. What is painfully detailed is all of his studies and those might be true passions 🤷‍♀️
174 - Even the Cardinal Virtues cannot atone for cold entrees

163- out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
… and there steals over us a terrible sense of the necessity for the continuance of energy in the same wearisome round of stereotypical habits…
I so badly want this kid to lose his beauty. I expected him to be doing some terrible stuff but he studies Roman Catholics, musical instruments, jewels, and tapestries

ive been procrastinating reading this bcz the introduction is 50 pages long. while the context is interesting, i just get bored so easily .. but now jm past it finally

Yet another classic book I’ve already seen a film adaption of before reading. No complaints though, I will be using the image of Ben Barnes from that movie while I read. 🤭