BYSSHE

"The fascination with fire-arms was one of many elements in Shelley's character which Hogg, a very down-to-earth personality despite all his masterly sarcasms, could never really account for. Another was Shelley's almost maniac disregard, on certain occasions, for the commonplace decencies of public normal public behaviour, as the time when he seized a baby out of its mother's arms while crossing Magdalen Bridge and began earnestly to question it about the nature of its Platonic pre-existence so that he might prove a point in an argument he was having with Hogg concerning metempsychosis."

January62012

COMPETITION

submission from book-of-flights: Have you read or have an opinion on this: http://www.girl-detective.net/sonnet_excerpt.html ?

I hadn’t, but I’ve just read it, so thanks for the submission! As much as I like random Shelley in books, I’m not a fan of mystery books and I don’t think this is particularly well-written…But yeah, I do appreciate the fact that the author has based it around a Shelley sonnet! It would be better if the mystery could only be solved through advanced literary analysis and close readings of Shelley’s poems, but then as an English student I would say that.

Actually, this reminds me of something I meant to do ages ago:

COMPETITION

SHELLEY FANFIC. Whether it’s 500 words or 50,000 words, as long as you’ve written it and it features Shelley and is at least slightly insane…please submit it. Shelley/Byron is always welcome, but Shelley/Keats, Shelley/Leigh Hunt, Shelley/Trelawny (lol) are also encouraged. Surprise me. It doesn’t have to be slash! But come on, you know you want to. Oh, and it has to feature Shelley as a person in some way, not just his poetry.

Deadline is the 31st of January. Winner gets a postcard of the manuscript for “Ode to the West Wind” and maybe something else depending on how poor I am.

Submit it through tumblr, or email me at thirteenthfloorvendetta@hotmail.co.uk

P.S

If you write the fanfic in sonnet form, you’re the instant winner.

percy bysshe shelley shelley submitted by: book-of-flights submission

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