I have an unnatural obsession with Lord Byron.
Sorry if you have seen this list before; one of the characteristics of my obsessions is that I do not care how many times I repeat the same information because I have decided that everyone ever must know what I do.
(Some of) the reasons for Lord Byron's excellence:
1. A web-comic post that is hilarious. I was reading the archives of Hark, a vagrant! which is an excellent web-comic, when I came across this:
[I was going to put up a picture but then I realized that people might get angry at me and I really don't want to do that. It would have been for convenience but I don't want them to think I was STEALING. So here is a link: click this for magic][also this comic might offend you but I hope it doesn't]
This has most likely influenced my opinion of Lord Byron in ways that no one can ever imagine. But everything I have learned since I read this has only served to confirm this opinion.
2. The poem he sent to his wife. When his wife sent him divorce papers, he responded with a poem. It is pretty excellent. Here it is:
Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and shame shall cling to thee,
And haunt thee like a feverish dream!
Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not.
Thy husband too shall think of thee:
By neither shalt thou be forgot,
Thou false to him, thou fiend to me!
So there is that.
3. He was awful, and clever, two things which can endear me to a person indefinitely. One of his lovers stopped eating after he left her. He said TO HER MOTHER that he was being "haunted by a skeleton." What a classy bastard!
4. The circumstances of his death. During the war for Greek independence, he volunteered and went to help out, and died while he was there. But not by fighting, no! He was on a yacht. Drinking and probably pursuing many ladies (and men, too? I am guessing, but I am probably right). Wikipedia said that he contracted a fever, but I like to think that it was a fever from too much partying.
The reason I like Lord Byron so much is that he seems like he would be an awesome person to hang out with if you had never slept with him.
Also please don't fact check this post because I found out that a lot of the things that I have said are not entirely accurate but the truth is marginally less awesome and I am too lazy to fix anything. Or basically, Lord Byron is so awesome that some of the things I have written are accidentally made up, but that doesn't affect his awesomeness at all because he is still terribly excellent.
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