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...Toon received it in 1894, during Wilde's most voluptuous period. Long known for a wit and esthete, he was by then known as a full-blown decadent, approaching notoriety. The symbols of his cult were familiar to London's streets and salons???peacock feathers, sunflowers, dados, blue china, long hair, velveteen breeches. He was suffused with and satisfied only by the cloyingly sensuous in image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license...
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