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Danny, who took charge of the final production of the "Proceedings of the Byron Society", volume 2, did not let me see this piece until it was issued, and I now see why. He knows that I would never have allowed such a self-indulgent pile of drivel into a publication that had my name associated with it. Obviously Granduncle Porky is how Danny sees himself in forty years time — a "trim white-haired, dinner-jacketed blade ... a roué". This obviously sounds a lot more stylish than "a sleazy old poser". I am tempted to re-cast the same story from Artemisia Holland's point of view ... documenting the problems of coping with a self-obsessed incontinent geriatric lecher on top of boyfriend problems, plus the fact that her brother Jason is the most notorious homosexual in Winchester, and that she's only doing it because she needs the money, her parents having cut both her and Jason off after he came out of the closet. Mmm, let me see. What else? Porky embarrasses her by flirting with Jason? No, maybe not. I'll think of something (CH).