"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." |
But from now on, they can only pay their respects through a screen. This follows a recent renovation that left it scrubbed clean, and surrounded by glass to stop visitors from degrading it.
Wilde's grave was last renovated in the 1990s. Decades of graffiti had prompted his descendants to get an historical monument listing for the tombstone, in hopes it would discourage vandalism: the graffiti stopped but then the kissing started.
Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland: "If they'd kissed it without lipstick, we wouldn't have had to do this." He thought that even though Wilde would have loved the attention, he'd have been uncomfortable at the lippie defacing it. "I don't think he would like graffiti very much because he loved perfect clothes, perfect houses. I think he'd like his statue to be clean and beautiful."
fag hags, queue here... |
The Pere Lachaise cemetery's burial list reads like a Who's Who of famous deceased dudes, including Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust and Jim Morrison of The Doors (yes, he really is dead!).
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