Wilmot Rochester --> Kenosha. Everything connects.
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 1 08:48:34 CST 2004
http://www.goldbug.com/WilmotHomePage.html
"Wilmot is often mistaken for a rat. Based on fuzzy memory
and piecing together a few clues, we believe Wilmot may have
originally been a prize from the Kenosha County Fair in
Wilmot, Wisconsin, USA sometime in the early 1970's."
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ro/RochestJW.html
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2d earl of. The Columbia Encyclopedia
1647|80, English poet and courtier, b. Ditchley,
Oxfordshire. Most notorious and dissolute of the Restoration
rakes, he lost the favor of Charles II on several occasions
because of his recklessness. His most celebrated poem is his
Satyr Against Mankind (1675). Although his poetry is
primarily characterized by its wit, its polish, and its
licentiousness, an undercurrent of piety runs through much
of his work. In the last years of his life, Rochester
underwent a religious conversion.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/wilmot/default.htm
John Wilmot
"Nothing, thou elder brother ev'n to shade."
-- Ooooohh. This man knows things men ought of naught know!
http://www.pornokrates.com/rochester.html
PORNOKRATES: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - A Debt to Pleasure
"Would Frig upon his Mother's Face;"
-- Sounds like a deep Oedipal insight and autofellatio reference.
I send for my whore, when for fear of a clap,
I spend in her hand, and I spew in her lap.
-- a lot less symbolic.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/wilmot/satyr.htm
A quaint quotable antirationalist polemic
Women and Men of Wit, are dang'rous Tools,
And ever fatal to admiring Fools.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/wilmot/nothing.htm
And Rebell-Light obscured thy Reverend dusky face.
And the Divine alone with warrant pries
Into thy Bosome, where thy truth in private lyes
Yes, he definitely passes the test:
Of darkness, potion, vision, quest.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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