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Commentary on "Childe Harold's Further Pilgrimage"

Being intimidated by wild, all-American babes and touring the modest cradle from forth which the Hoey phenomenon sprang seems to have brought the ironical best frothing out of the Doge — one wonders what he might accomplish in a more serious vein … Nah — what am I saying! Besides, we might do better to remember the sublime words of the philosopher-bard of Manhattan, Woody Allen: ‘I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.’ (However, Tennyson’s Tithonus might not altogether agree with these sentiments) (DJ).