Word Wednesday: Byronic

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The Byronic hero, incapable of love or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid [and] his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

The Byronic Hero is a character notable for being sullen, withdrawn, hard to like and hard to know but, usually possessing a rich inner life and a softer side, accessible only to a special few.
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January 5, 2022 at 8:21 AM
Sounds like an Impossible Dream.
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January 5, 2022 at 9:57 PM
What? To be bryonic?
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January 6, 2022 at 4:40 AM
You know, Don Quixote,
The Man of La Mancha
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January 5, 2022 at 11:50 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhh the real heroes of the world.
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January 5, 2022 at 9:57 PM
Moody-broody types. They make interesting characters.
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January 6, 2022 at 11:12 AM
I suppose there is a bit of the Byronic in me. But I am mostly a chimerical fatalist in love with unrequited love …
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January 6, 2022 at 2:02 PM
In love with the idea of love, particularly from a distance…?
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January 6, 2022 at 3:09 PM
Exactly! 🙂
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January 6, 2022 at 8:24 PM
LOL!
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