We hope that Bob and Patti don't use up all of their energy defending literary love nests in London, because we here at the Chelsea may need to call on them some day. With soulless yuppie condos springing up all around, where else but the Chelsea can future bohemians hope to compose their as yet unwritten Horses or "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."
Musicians Bob Dylan and Patti Smith are being dragged into a fight to save one of literature's most debauched and disreputable love nests. 
The dilapidated house in Camden, north London, was the backdrop for the absinthe drinking, drug-taking and scandalous affair between the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine who lived there in the 19th century.
The home is now to be sold along with two adjoining houses, and campaigners fear it may be redeveloped to erase the house's literary link unless a sympathetic buyer is found. Rock literati Dylan and Smith, both admirers of the poets, have been approached to give muscle to the efforts to preserve the property. (Source: Independent)
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