I consented to do this meme for
amelia_eve.
THE RULES:
1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of the 3 people I gave you.
4) Label which you would marry, which you would shag, and which you would throw off a cliff.
My challenge: William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Ted Hughes. I'm just going to pretend they're all somehow still alive because otherwise this gets really disgusting really fast.
William Blake: He was devoted to his wife throughout their life, so I think of this lot he's my best bet to marry. The only signifiant marital problem he might have had was he may or may not have tried to introduce a concubine into his marital bed, which sounds kind of hot, actually. So even though I wouldn't marry any of these guys in real life, he's the least objectionable and maybe he would have written something shockingly irreligious for me.
Rudyard Kipling: He was all about upright virtue and goodness (despite not really getting along with his wife), so I have to think he'd have been a lot of fun to corrupt. And there's a photo of him
smoking a pipe (which I can't reproduce here as it isn't public domain in the US yet) which is positively HOT. Shag, definitely.
Ted Hughes: Well, his wife killed herself, and his lover killed their daughter and then herself, so I think even though it's rather cliche to hate on Ted Hughes, just for my own protection I'd better not either marry or shag this guy, just in case. So, the cliff it is.
(Note: top two pictures are public domain and bottom one is Creative Commons.)