I realize that, between now and about this time last year my Nerd Factor has pretty much skyrocketed something ridiculous. I am thanks to cyloncurry strangely obsessed with Battlestar Galactica, spend an inordinate time reading superhero comics, and am minoring in Latin ( Read more... )

The Pursuit by Richard Holmes is the first biography I have read. Well, no, that isn't quite true. I've read part of a biography on Ted Bundy and the first volume of Holmes' Coleridge. Still, this is the first biography I have read that concludes with a death. Shelley died at the age of 29. At the point I am at in the biography he is 27 ( Read more... )

The infamous S. T. Coleridge, on boils:

dreadfully troublesome eruptions, which so grimly constellated my Posteriors

Dr. Read reports that Shelley is even more melodramatic dramatic than Coleridge. Weave a circle round him thrice indeed. I can't wait. I didn't think you could get more melodramatic dramatic than Coleridge.