"By excess, Wilde can reach the nausea, saturation, horror effects, weirdly causing a moral effect in the same way happens with Dorian Gray, novel on which the author declared that is profoundly moral, although the artist doesn't have ethical inclinations. In Salome's tragedy, the Tetrarch, despite of all his crimes and sins, does not stand the horror of the princess' kiss and words in the end: 'Ah, I have kissed your mouth, Jokannan. There was a bitter taste on your lips. Was it the taste of blood? I have kissed your mouth, Jokannan'." (Mutran)