Archive for the ‘Fops who Write’ Category
Erik von Markovik AKA "Mystery".
Canadian author and entertainer Erik von Markovik is also known as “Mystery”. Well known in the “seduction community”, he is one of the main characters in the non-fiction book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” by his “best friend” Neil Strauss.
He was featured in the 2007 VH1 reality television series The Pick-up Artist. Mystery is the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest pick-up artist” and was introduced as the “world’s most successful pick-up artist” during the premiere of his VH1 show.
Mystery has also received several notable awards within the seduction community. Mystery has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Pick-up Artists Of The Year for the last seven years, and one commercial website awarded him the top spot in 2007.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was an 19th century Irish writer whose works include the play The Importance of Being Earnest and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is also one of the Victorian era’s most famous dandies, a wit whose good-humored disdain for convention became less favored after he was jailed for homosexuality.
In 1895, at the height of his popularity, his relationship with the young poet Lord Alfred Douglas was declared inappropriately intimate by Douglas’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde sued for libel, but the tables were turned when it became clear there was enough evidence to charge Wilde with “gross indecency” for his homosexual relationships. He was convicted and spent two years in jail, after which he went into self-imposed exile in France, bankrupt and in ill health.
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