Sublime

Rugged individualists, like Jim, believe in the code of individualism, the assertion of one’s unalienable rights. By contrast, Romantic individualists, like Brit, are moved not by individualism but by the unique expression of individuality, finding and manifesting one’s singular individual “genius.” In today’s language, one would want to discover a

Lord Byron (1788-1824) incarne le paradoxe du poète rebelle, du paresseux révolté, du révolutionnaire décontracté. Son premier recueil de poésie publié en 1807 lorsqu’il avait 19 ans et étudiait au Trinity College à Cambridge s’appelait Heures de paresse. C’était un aristocrate, un riche oisif. Cependant,

“Merripen, you idiot,” he said, struggling to keep him down, “he’s the damn doctor. What do you think you’re doing?” “Killing … him,” Kev grunted, lurching upward despite Cam’s restraining weight.