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QJM 2007 100(12):803-804; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm105
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From the depths

John Launer

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If you have ever been infatuated with someone, or want to understand infatuation, there is one work of literature that you should read. It is ‘De Profundis’ (or ‘From the Depths’) by Oscar Wilde.1 Wilde wrote it in Reading Gaol, where he had been imprisoned for his homosexuality. ‘De Profundis’ takes the form of a hundred page letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, known universally as Bosie. Wilde always intended it for publication, although it was over sixty years before an uncensored version . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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