But, leveller, as always with Wilde, so difficult to distinguish sincerity from flamboyant affectation. Why would he self-confess to socialist-anarchism & 'rail against the establishment', except, I cannot help suspecting, to personify one of those epigrammatic paradoxes in which he took such delight, what with his exquisiteness in dress and public persona and his treasured aristocratic connections? Wilde's view of Kropotkin was one widely held: he was much admired, among others, by William Morris & Bernard Shaw. But wouldn't one just like to know what might have been Kropotkin's opinion of Wilde!

~M~