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Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

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Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's religious impulse was always there, really. If you look at it, even in his college years, he's really interested in religion and Christianity,. And Catholicism and Anglicanism are really material religions which capitalized on the material culture of religion. So how does that work together? That's a whole long story in itself. But they do go together in his life.

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