"i aten't dead" ?

"Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kindischen Spiel." (Friedrich Schiller)

Probably. He's supposed to have been (can't find any pictures at the moment)

edited because I found a picture. He was. . . pretty. That's about all I can say about him. Couldn't find a picture of his sister though

Didn't Byron used to dance naked in the fountain at one of the Cambridge colleges as well? Bloomin' romantics.

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.

Our English teacher told us this story (and it sat, undisturbed, in my memory for the past 8 years until now)...

When poet Percy Shelley died (drowned in a boating accident?), his friends decided to burn his body on a pyre. Byron was among the attendees. As Shelley's body popped open from the heat (like a hot dog in a microwave), Byron supposedly reached in, pulled out the heart and handed it to his lady friend, saying "Here, this is the heart of a great poet!"

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Yes, Keats tried to rescue him, but couldn't.

That story is gross! Those romantics, I dunno... And you just know that in his head, Keats turned the thrashing, blubbering, head-pounding panic of trying to save his non-swimming friend from drowning into a gloriously tragic sinking into sweet death.

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.

Actually, it was Edward Trelawny who rescued Shelley's heart. It was kept by Shelley's widow for the rest of her days.

I was in Greece this summer and when we were at Delfi (Delphi?), looking at the ruins and fresh springs and everything, the guide showed us this old pool that criminals in Ancient times would be made to cross, and assassins would be made to jump in (or something, I can't remember the exact story) and anyway when Byron visited, he jumped into the pool!

Ernest Hemmingway was whacked out on Absinth most of the time. I believe he coined the phrase "The Green Fairy"

I also believe that Ba will correct any of these facts if they are wrong.

Fuck Shoes.

Romantics...I'm telling you, both in writing and in music they were over the top. Bach was damn difficult to learn, but at least his works were like very interesting puzzles eg, how to play a fugue without splicing your brain. Romantics were just plain difficult, with all those trills and frills and stuff.

Bah! give me the Classics every time.

Researched...Stand corrected! Sorry

Let's see, whenever Gaston Leroux ("Phantom of the Opera") would finish a book, he'd stick his head out the window and yell - this would signal for his family to run around banging pots and pans in celebration.

When Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote his first Tarzan novel, he accidentally put a tiger in the middle of an African jungle (when I started writing a story about a tiger, I did the same thing, only I put him in the middle of a savannah :p )

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