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(UPI) Strange A spirit passed before me: I beheld, the face of immortality unveiled. Series of letters from poet Lord Byron sell for a record $458,000   (upi.com) divider line 20
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char_boy 2009-11-01 09:45:59 AM  
Sunday morning? Hock and soda water!

 
Isildur [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 09:49:09 AM  
Oh, so not Lord Byron the astronaut, then.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 09:55:47 AM  
Those belong in a mausoleum!

- The Continuing Adventures of Goth Indiana Jones

 
Hack of all trades 2009-11-01 10:05:28 AM  
Realizing that he would not exist without Byron's template, I still prefer Pechorin.

 
oldebayer [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 10:20:00 AM  
The most valuable of the letters was the one that asked for the loan of two quid to mend the shed.

 
TheWizard 2009-11-01 10:21:00 AM  
And they were, "H, L, T, E, S, W."

 
unfarkingbelievable 2009-11-01 10:22:35 AM  
How Byronic.

 
Lampmonster [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 10:30:34 AM  
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poetry sucks
and so do you

 
ladyway905 2009-11-01 10:55:25 AM  
Can I like Matthew Arnold better? What about John Keats?

 
whammer 2009-11-01 11:00:32 AM  
Remember that this is the guy who wrote "Don Juan", and I don't mean Carlos Castaneda.

So imagine his letters as being the phone sex of the time.

"And then I shalt rend open thy bustier, as thou writhe and moan like a beast of the field, in anticipation of the rutting."

 
m0llusk [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 11:32:45 AM  
"From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife."
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

"The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains."
-- John Constable

 
Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo 2009-11-01 11:33:36 AM  
The face of immortality probably has a really, really bored expression. "Oh, look, the continents are drifting again."

 
DeaH 2009-11-01 11:37:26 AM  
Couldn't even get half a million? These are bad times for the arts.

 
Corn_Fed 2009-11-01 12:42:57 PM  
Subby you sound like a girl!

 
Braindeath 2009-11-01 01:22:34 PM  
Worth every penny. If they ever start burning books, I will be the complete collection of Lord Byron.

 
Tigger [TotalFark] 2009-11-01 01:50:30 PM  
What a flawed but romantic gesture.

 
genner 2009-11-01 02:36:37 PM  
Corn_Fed: Subby you sound like a girl!

Impossible there are no girls on the internet.
He just has a high voice for a dude.

 
zulius 2009-11-01 04:30:05 PM  
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//Not really Obscure, but it's worth a shot...

 
dbrunker 2009-11-01 05:41:15 PM  
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See the whole comic at http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ (new window)and find out what happens when Ada Lovelace tries to Twitter in the early 1800s.

 
artifex 2009-11-01 11:01:04 PM  
Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: The face of immortality probably has a really, really bored expression. "Oh, look, the continents are drifting again."

What do you mean, again? They never stop. It's comforting.

 
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