NERDY CRUSHES, ANYONE?

MY NERDY CRUSHES

I am convinced that all schoolgirls and schoolboys fall in love with a handful of the long dead figures from history, literature, and science that they study in class. Do you still find yourself penning ballads for Napoleon or drawing hearts around Marie Curie’s name? Does your heart skip a beat at the mere thought of John Keats or Nefertiti? Does the thought of bearing Shakespeare’s children in some alternate universe send you into transports of joy?

You’re not alone.

The following, in no particular order, are a few of the dead objects of my affection; I shall expatiate on each person separately at a later time:

Walt Whitman
Pablo Neruda
Matthew Brady
Alexander Hamilton
Emily Dickinson
Leif Erickson
Eric the Red
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Virgil
Teddy Roosevelt
Boccaccio
Shoeless Joe Jackson