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Staring into the Soundless Dark: On the Trouble Lurking in Poets’ Bedrooms
- pizza 10y ago> An animal-lover and vegetarian, Byron also kept a pet bear, Bruin, while a student at Cambridge, and according to some accounts the bear lived with him in his lodgings, a sentry while he slept. uh, ok, heck, I'd like to know the line of reasoning that led to that idea and its subsequent execution
- cafard 10y agoByron said that nobody in Venice fought duels over women, at least not with their husbands. I am interested to learn that he was a vegetarian. As for Ruskin, he had been a medical student, so shock over pubic hair seems unlikely.