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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