I, Ron, like a Byron in Zion
Went to listen to the local orchestra tonight, playing Rachmaninoff’s second concerto and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Manfred’ symphony, an interpretation of Byron’s dramatic poem of the same name. This got me thinking about Byron, and wondering whether the intelligentsia are really sure about his name.
I mean, are they sure his name wasn’t actually just Ron, and he was in the habit of signing all his rambling Romantic tracts “by Ron”?
Seriously, has anyone looked into this?
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Strewth. I think you could be onto something here.
Posted on 18-Feb-07 at 3:46 am | PermalinkWhat next? Is Robert Browning, Adrienne Rich, Christopher Smart, Gerald Stern or Conrad Aiken? Can Wendy Cope or Ishmael Reed? I must warn you away from this line of inquiry…
Posted on 18-Feb-07 at 6:48 am | PermalinkI want to elope with the last comment, and live a life of illicit fulfillment. Bravo, OutOfContext.
Posted on 18-Feb-07 at 3:43 pm | Permalink….
Maybe it was actually Bryon.
Which would make Bryon & Shell’.
‘By Ron’ First name ‘Purple’.
Posted on 19-Feb-07 at 4:30 am | PermalinkOh dear.
Pete: Strewth? Is that cork dangling from your hat?
OOC: Ha ha. To sum up, Genghis Khan, but Immanuel Kant.
Mike: uh?
pog: I’ll thank you not to make foul insinuations arou- wait, what am I saying?
Posted on 20-Feb-07 at 8:52 am | PermalinkInteresting. I’m not actually sure what I meant, menace.
Posted on 20-Feb-07 at 3:11 pm | Permalink….
I should have signed that comment “Fortified Mulled Wine”, by the way, rather than “Mikeachim”.