Seattle Adult Entertainment: The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron
Oh, how tedious it is, earning a living! Still, never mind. By way of compensation, he was allowed to wear his vest (his shoulders, which slope like the Matterhorn, are an endless source of fascination) whenever he liked, the only exception being when he was required to put on some ghastly felt version of Albanian national costume.
He was also allowed to insult everyone in sight when he attended a party at the British embassy in Istanbul. He had some amusing line of Byron’s about the Turks and sodomy that it pleased him to repeat over and over, like a small boy who has just learned a rude word. At tea with a Portuguese call girl, whom he met on the spurious grounds that the traveller Byron particularly relished sex with Spanish prostitutes, he asked: “Who [which nationality] has the biggest penises?” Good question, Rupert! This is exactly the kind of thing that, throwing down my hastily annotated copy of Don Juan, I liked to ask my tutor at college.
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