literary tidbit

[withopeneyes21]

Lord Byron, the famous romantic poet/writer...was supposed to be extremely handsome...but rather prone to corpulance. He would frequently go on diets ingesting nothing but soda water, biscuits, alongside "strong cathartics."

*grins*

He also had an incensuous relationship with his half-sister...and slept his way through Europe.

Comments

[severina]

He also had a clubfoot which he was very self-conscious about.

[withopeneyes21]

*grins* yep--though he was apparently quite the athlete.

(boys and their little egos...John Keats was the same way. 5'0, but a pugnacious wrestler and fighter)

[blairwitch]

Ah damn, you stole my thunder :D

I love Lord Byron. I would totally have slept with him, even if I was one in 5 billion :P

He was quite attractive actually, from the paintings I have seen anyway.

Oh, and he also caused Percy Bysshe Shelley's cousin to commit suicide.

[withopeneyes21]

if you do sleep with him, please use a condom. You know know where THAT has been :)

(the one I REALLY want is Keats...man, he can write!)

[withopeneyes21]

*grins* thanks for the advice!

(though I need to know more about their work than about them)

[withopeneyes21]

good luck topping byron :)

(I heard that he enjoyed the Italians)

[petarius]

wait half-sisters count??

maybe I'm thinking of step-sisters

[thesqueaktoy]

I love random information like this. :)