all in your head

[tsubame]

We read Lord Byron's Manfred for class today, and over the course of our discussion I realized that Emrys posesses certain frightening similarities to that particular manifestation of the Byronic hero. First of all, he's insufferably arrogant and rather self-focused. Then we have the fact that he's continously tormented by his past, he has been made cynical through long experience, he's looking for forgiveness or condemnation (more the latter than the former, since he doesn't believe forgiveness is possible), and his attempts to kill himself tend to get thwarted in a handy manner. Oh, and he firmly believes that humanity should be collectively dropped in a big soapy vat and given a good scrubbing because they're kind of icky.

It's rather silly, if you think about it.

Which means, of course, that he doesn't appreciate the comparison even a little bit. In fact, I think his reaction might somewhat resemble this. Beware the Byronic pillow attack of DOOM!

Have I mentioned lately that majochan rocks my world hardcore? Because she does. Her coolness is well over the border of astounding.

Comments

Re: ::gets a pillow in the face::

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it. ;-)

I actually have another fairly long snippet completed in my notebook . . . but it needs to be typed up and re-edited. It's also vaguely more plot-related than what I've put up previous to this, although still fairly amusing. Somehow the mage and the gryphon snippets always tend to be humorous, I'm not sure why . . .