--- Dana wrote:
Natasa quoted some lines from Childe Harold.
From a third party: "A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection" --from Macauley's review of Moore's Life of Byron.
This appears as the epigraph to a story by Executrix called Mad Bad & Dangerous to now, on which Avon and Byron are on rather good terms during their single brief meeting.
Macaulay suggests that Byron's preference was for the mechanical style of poetry of the 18th Century, yet ended up as one of the leaders of the romantic movement which I suppose could parallel Avon's transition from looking after number one to his decision to take on the aliens in Star One, followed by his role as resistance leader after Blake's departure.
Macaulay also suggests that the Byronic creed was to hate one's neighbour and love one's neighbour's wife. Which may explain what Avon was doing with Mrs Chesku.
The other parallel between them is that they both died fighting for the cause of liberty. However as far as I'm aware Byron was not shot with his supporters by Turkish soldiers moments after he had gunned down Percy Bysshe Shelley under the misaprehension that he had betrayed them to the Turks.
Stephen.
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