[rec.arts.comics] Melmoth: various and sundry

vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) (12/15/90)

In article <12269@hacgate.UUCP> meyer@wwiii.HAC.COM (Mike Meyer) writes:


   As far as Wilde goes, one of his friends who was quite supportive of him
   during his imprisonment is named Robbie or Reggie (I forget which). This
   person is mentioned in "De Profundis," a scathing (80 pages+)
   letter Wilde wrote to Alfred Douglas while still in gaol, chockful of 
   nasty (and somewhat embittered) epigrams.

There is both a Robbie Ross and a Reggie (??)  associated with the
real life Oscar Wilde.  "Lord Reggie" was a character in a real life
fictional parody of Oscar Wilde (by Alfred Douglas??).  Robbie Ross is
the name of the other character in _Melmoth_1_.  He mentions the
Reggie will be arriving "tomorrow".

I will be posting some more information relating to the real life
Oscar Wilde next week.  As soon as I make sense of it.  My
investigation there is beginning to sway my opinion that there may
indeed be 2 Oscars in the Cerebus world.

Curiouser and curiouser,


   My question is, "What happened to Missy?"


Missy appears in 137 as part of the stuffing for a chair.

jv


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