> On hearing the news of Waterloo, Byron said
Damn you, Carrol, you know my weaknesses.
> Have you read the Charterhouse of Parma?
There's so much Byron, which is not an excuse.
> Napoleon personally might have been a
> first-class jerk, but on the question of whether or not he was a
> "threat to
> humanity simply by [his] continued existence" is it would seem
> debatable.
> Byron's judgment of his world is nto to be dismissed off hand.
Possibly it was a bad example. Maybe Nathan Bedford Forrest or Jefferson Davis are better ones. Or maybe not. Or maybe I'm wrong--I'd like to be.
John A