Post by Coil on Jun 15, 2016 18:12:35 GMT
I've only just started on the game podcast and am currently up to RQG17. By this point Byron has been referred to as fat on one occasion and it was heavily inferred during the fire when it was suggested that if Bertie tried to throw him it would be like throwing a very heavy beachball...
This leads me to wonder which year these events are taking place in... After some googling, I've discovered that he was 13st 12lb circa 1806, but had dropped below 9st by 1811...
Bertie mentions preferring his earlier works in RGQ17. Byron's first publication was in 1807 and his second was in 1809. From '09 to '11 he was travelling the world and therefore wouldn't be in London to attend an auction, so we must assume that this is happening in 1811 at the very earliest and 1816 at the very latest (when he left England forever) and there are at least two published works for Bertie to make a comparison. We also know that his anorexia was well recorded enough that there was concern at the time that young women were starving themselves in order to meet the standards of Byron's disciples...
Are the characters just being ironic when they call him fat?
I am fully aware that this has absolutely no holding on the story as far as I've listened (no spoilers please!) but I'm literally that guy who likes to point out irrelevant inaccuracies, and I spent my late teens obsessing over Byron.
This leads me to wonder which year these events are taking place in... After some googling, I've discovered that he was 13st 12lb circa 1806, but had dropped below 9st by 1811...
Bertie mentions preferring his earlier works in RGQ17. Byron's first publication was in 1807 and his second was in 1809. From '09 to '11 he was travelling the world and therefore wouldn't be in London to attend an auction, so we must assume that this is happening in 1811 at the very earliest and 1816 at the very latest (when he left England forever) and there are at least two published works for Bertie to make a comparison. We also know that his anorexia was well recorded enough that there was concern at the time that young women were starving themselves in order to meet the standards of Byron's disciples...
Are the characters just being ironic when they call him fat?
I am fully aware that this has absolutely no holding on the story as far as I've listened (no spoilers please!) but I'm literally that guy who likes to point out irrelevant inaccuracies, and I spent my late teens obsessing over Byron.
