November 28, 2019:

Byron, bored with his brilliance. Alone with his loss and his servants. Mourning.

Shelley, narcoleptic, buried alive.

Sex and snooker, laudanum, leaches and Henry Fuseli.

I thought... Well it was an early vision, still a Romantic vision, the Romance of isolation in genius. One scenario of the future my mother programmed me to expect, with Against the Fall of Night and Slan.

I am not that boy but I remember him.