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Dec. 30th, 2010 11:34 pmYou know Byron wrote a lot of stuff? A lot of stuff. Really long poems and short poems and poems that look short until he adds another canto.
Sadly there is no reading all of it, or even a significant lot of it.
The bits I know already I mostly know from Highlander fandom. Where Byron was Immortal and a rock star. It's not every fandom that gets that as their canon.
Byron was totally the rock star of his day. The Corsair sold out the first print run of 10,000 copies in a single day. Or so says the internet, all quoting each other with no sources ref. 10,000 of a poem. How many things can sell 10,000 of anything now? ... I tried to poke the internet for answers to that but only have a vague impression that 10,000 singles sales a top 40 hit would make. ... Byron really doesn't need to know that :eyeroll:
Irritating though: to fit the rhyme and metre, Juan is said Ju-an. And Heaven somehow has one syllable.
Mostly though I'm finding I can read his stuff three times without getting bored, which is excellent helpful when trying to make an essay of it.
Sadly there is no reading all of it, or even a significant lot of it.
The bits I know already I mostly know from Highlander fandom. Where Byron was Immortal and a rock star. It's not every fandom that gets that as their canon.
Byron was totally the rock star of his day. The Corsair sold out the first print run of 10,000 copies in a single day. Or so says the internet, all quoting each other with no sources ref. 10,000 of a poem. How many things can sell 10,000 of anything now? ... I tried to poke the internet for answers to that but only have a vague impression that 10,000 singles sales a top 40 hit would make. ... Byron really doesn't need to know that :eyeroll:
Irritating though: to fit the rhyme and metre, Juan is said Ju-an. And Heaven somehow has one syllable.
Mostly though I'm finding I can read his stuff three times without getting bored, which is excellent helpful when trying to make an essay of it.