I meant to blog this when it occurred but I forgot and it wasn't until Corinne, once more, blogged about Byron that I remembered the need to blog the exchange. For those of you who have read The Waves you will be familiar with Bernard's references to himself as Byron. In my seminar last week, this came up in discussion and if I can remember rightly, it was discussed negatively so my tutor was anxious to argue that every man has at some point thought of himself as Byron, including all the guys present in the room. As an afterthought he added that woman probably have too, once more including all females in the room. Unfortunately I couldn't even consider whether I had ever thought of myself as Byron since I had Gilly and Corinne's dialogue in my head and was trying desperately to suppress the urge to say, "But I've never slept with a younger-than-16 year old boy and I'm sure no one else in the room has either..."