The last sentence of a novel is one of the most important sentences. When buying a book, I have regularly been guided by the first and last sentence. Personally, I wasn't allowed to read the last sentence, it could reveal the end of the story and take away the tension from reading. However, I have rarely had this problem and the last sentence was often the deciding factor for buying the book.

Openai mentions six writing techniques (tips) for seductive writing:

In the Dutch weekly ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’ of 21 December 2022 (https://www.groene.nl/artikel/mijn-oscar) Opheffer states that Oscar Wilde in the first two chapters of ‘The picture of Dorian Gray’ has nearly written a manual on how to seduce. Curious by this observation, I picked up the book that I once read, I don’t remember how long ago. My memory of the story was almost erased and I read the two chapters as if they were new.

Because I've been reading a lot lately about the information value of artificial intelligence, I asked openai.com what the characteristics are of literary seduction. Through the chatbox, I received the following answer:

In 'The picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde shows what seduction is and how to seduce the reader. Like me, Theo Holman was also inspired by him (https://www.groene.nl/artikel/mooie-praatjes-vullen-gaatjes). He learned from Oscar Wilde that "nice talk helps, but that you have to capture them in paradoxes and statements, and you have to be extremely vague, so use a lot of words like love, passion, soul, senses, et cetera, et cetera, words with which you can go in all directions because they mean nothing anyway. Literary seduction is confusing the other, and you evoke that confusion by speaking confusingly, but writing clearly."