But it certainly is very disappointing on Wilde's part, yeah. I think it was one of those times when his aesthetics got the better of his ethics and he tossed off stuff like 'to be innocent requires no imagination' or whatever, plus he was thinking of himself as a criminal too. Plus there was a v weird anti-Dreyfus anglophobia in France at the time? WTF.

Poor Carlos, he was the best man at Wilde's wedding and I just read in a book review how he requested his ashes be put in the tomb next to Wilde's, altho it was put much more affectingly than that and of course now I can't find it. (Altho then his son Carlos Paton Blacker was a eugenicist? DD: But his granddaughter was a 'Blakean' batik atist! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/thetis-blacker-434360.html)