"Infatuated with John Eddelston, Byron penned: I ... love him more than any human being ... During the whole of my residence at Cambridge we met every day ... without passing one tiresome moment ..."
"Although 'Byron liked the chase, the reassurance of heterosexual conquest', [Fiona MacCarthy] claims, 'his erotic imagination brought him back inevitably to the idealised image of the boy'. Her version of the story has Byron living a double life, using straight sexual behaviour as a way of distracting himself and others from his exclusively homosexual instincts."
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