Oscar Wilde renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform.
Garrison Melmoth tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. Garrison spent over 10,000 hours building the aircraft. Garrison explains how the aircraft's name was chosen, "I christened it Melmoth, after the Byronic protagonist of the nineteenth-century novel "Melmoth the Wanderer", who sells his soul to the devil for, among other valuable considerations, the ability to travel about at will in space and time." "Melmoth the Wanderer" was written by Charles Maturin and published in 1820. The aircraft was built from aluminium and incorporated exceptional fuel capacity for an amateur-built of its era, including two wingtip tanks and a main