Friday, August 19, 2005

Read more Byron...

...I should. (Yodaspeak)


I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
- Lord Byron

1 comment:

maggiemelba said...

oh chichi... i love Lord Byron... I read some of his cantos when i was in school and i fell in love with the guy. And then John Rodenbeck showed us this flim in our 'Gothing Literature' class about the summer that the Lord Byron brought over Mary Shelly and her poet-husband, and his half-sister, to his mansion in god-knows-where, and how they all decided that theyd spend that time writing g-o-t-h-i-c tales... and hence the birth of the brilliant Frankenstien ;);)... anyway... the guy playing Byron had ***im a babe*** tatooed to his forehead, and the film was really good in the sense that it wasnt censored (heehee) and as it turns out, he had a thingie with the half-sister, got her pregnant, got her 'un'pregnant, and then had another thingie with Mary Shelly and, believe it or not, also had a thingie with Mary Shelly's poet-husband... ok ok... so the guy was an all-rounder-do-it-with-anyone-anywhere-anytime, but then he was one heck of a good writer. I have some of his work at home, and im enchanted by it. Read him more if you can... hubba hubba!