Lit Class

So the weekend lit class is going well. I have really enjoyed it and I'm half way done. This weekend and next weekend are it! Come December 11th I'll be done with my fall semester.

My research paper, which is due the last weekend of class, is on Lord Byron. I had to pick a poet and Lord Byron had, by far, the most dramatic lives of any of the other poets listed. Here is a snippet I found:

Lord Byron's fame rests not only on his writings, but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and allegations of incest and sodomy;

I checked out the Biography on Lord Byron and since then I haven't been able to keep my nose out of it. If he was alive today I'm sure he'd have been killed, early on.

Other literary news - I hate reading Shakespeare. He can have all the respect he deserves from me -- really he can -- but that doesn't make his work any more easy or enjoyable for me to read. I've got a few days to read Hamlet in it's entirety and the first act of Loves Labours Lost. At 3 minutes per line I'll be 80 by the time I finish.