the good ol' days

Though I shouldn't really be spending these pre-exam days reading licentious poetry, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester cracks me up. Of course, you're always going to get a lot of attention when your life is described by Samual Johnson (yes, the Dr. Johnson) as "a course of drunken gaiety and gross sensuality, with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal, with an avowed contempt of decency and order, a total disregard to every moral, and a resolute denial of every religious observation, he lived worthless and useless, and blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness." (Via the bibliovixen).