I know, I know; optimism is soooo passée . . .
just as unmissable as Wilde, Marcel Proust:
as side dish, a tribute to the author of the world's first queer popsong èver :
written in the early 1930s by Sir Noel Coward after falling for a beautiful young man he met at a Hollywood party.
This young man was rumoured to be Douglas Fairbanks Jr,
although Tyrone Power may also have been the subject of Noel's desire.