Another Lover
by
, 10-17-2008 at 03:27 PM (1522 Views)
I am wondering when the men in white coats are going to show up at my door to escort me to Holly Hill Hotel for an extended stay.
So, I have met a new man online (I usually eschew such advances as they are usually from creepy Turkish men, octogenarians or young, stupid and obscene 20-somethings).
But, I have met a man - yes - a 20 year old - who isn't cheezy or sleazy, but actually asked me what Byron I've read, and we got into a literary conversation of merit. He loves Bryon, Yeats, Keats, Poe, has read "The Picture of Dorian Gray", loves classical music and the Pre-Raphaelites, draws and is en amour with court love, the Medieval period, and the concept of nobility.
Like me, he feels as if he belongs to a (former) time.
The only things I don't like are his neo-paganism (dualism/gnosticism) and his pro-Palestinian stance.
He's from Chile and quite the idealist.
He knows just enough written English, and I just enough written Spanish, that we have managed to communicate with each other. I have endeavored to keep my sentence structure simple and my words basic while not diminishing the content or message of the conversation, so if I start sounding like "See Spot. See Spot run", you know why. (-;
It's difficult to pare down when you write at a higher level.
He is the only other person I know of who is such a literary nerd that he has dressed up and had a picture taken of himself as his literary hero. While I have my "Oscar Wilde" photograph, he has his Byron.
We are such DORKS!