描述
Oscar Moncaí Wilde knew about the importance of being earnest all his life. As the son of intellectual monkey parents, he was well mannered, learned to be fluent in five languages, and attended the University of Apeford. After graduating he moved to London and entered the fashionable cultural and social circles of the city.
It was around this time he started to acquire several eccentric habits. One of them was keeping a pet lobster called Dorian, which he would take for walks. When people asked him why he choose a lobster, Oscar would always answer because it did not bark and knew the secrets of the sea.
Other characteristics of him were to wear his fur hair quite long, to decorate his tree with peacock feathers, and to collect porcelain and other objets d'art. He once remarked to friends: "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." On the other hand, when Oscar was physically attacked by a group of apes with seafood allergy, who he met on one of his strolls with Dorian, he dealt with them single-handedly.
He became a famous poet and playwright, well known for his biting wit. Only once he was baffled by a female ape he tried to impress at one of his flamboyant dinner parties. When he inquired, “Do you mind if I smoke?” She unfriendly shot back, “Oscar, I don’t mind if you burn.”
This event gave his ego a big blow and he withdrew from public life for a while. It suited him to be invited to a lecture tour to America and he took this chance for a change of scenery.
Upon his arrival to the customs in New York, he famously stated that he had “nothing to declare but his genius.” This would be later proven true as he delivered more than 140 lectures. But his life took another turn when he arrived in New England for one of his lectures. As a side event, the local authorities invited him to visit a lobster farm. This gruesome establishment appalled Oscar so much, he spent his complete fortune to acquire a piece of the seashore to set up a nature reserve and to buy back every lobster he could get his hands on. There he also published his most famous work, a biographical novel from the point of view of his pet, titled “The picture of Dorian, the blue-grey lobster”.