Posted in Booooks, Odd Saints, tagged A Ramble in St. James Park, Augustan poets, Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, Johnny Depp, Odd Saints, Restoration on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Carla Fran,
Bravo to Jean-Baptiste! I nominate his English counterpart, one of the oldest Firecrackers, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, for Odd Sainthood.
His dates: 1647-1680. The libertine non-pareil, he had sexual congress with everything that moved, and wrote about it too. He advanced the discourse with gems like the following:
Nor shall our love-fits, Cloris, be [...]
Posted in Booooks, Odd Saints, tagged lully, Odd Saints, opera, strange deaths, work, work and death on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Actually, this fellow was the opposite of a saint. He did a lot of ladies, and a lot of fellows, but libertine shmibertine! He had a weird death, and so I write of him today.
Born in 1632, he is responsible for bringing the grand edge of spectacle to French opera. He was very into stage [...]
Posted in Odd Saints, tagged Dragons, Odd Saints, Roman Governors, St. Margaret on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dearest, hopefully less beleaguered, Millicent,
I offer a new segment for us, the Odd Saints, where we profile characters (stumbled upon in reading, conversation, boredom) that are worth a second look. They don’t have to actually be saints. Nymphs, historical courtesans, wolf hunters can all count. I found one today. She is St. Margaret (or Marina) [...]
