One day, a fatal day I sometimes think, I determined to paint a wonderful portrait of you as you actually are, not in the costume of dead ages, but in your own dress and in your own time.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 9. Basil tells Dorian that when working on his painting he tried to portray Dorian in various historical settings, such as Paris and Adonis. But then one "fatal day" he decided to paint Dorian as he appeared in his own dress in the present day. The use of the word "fatal" is foreshadowing of the deaths to come, caused by Basil’s creation of the portrait and the narcassism it represents in Dorian – in Chapter 1 when Lord Henry first sees the painting he exclaims: "Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus."