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- FloorModel, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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the seed of his genius was his ability to accept and speak of his darkness - elperegrino, on 10/30/2009, -0/+6pictures, quoth i, or happen it did not
- xephonia, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5If you're going to pay tribute to an author, at least spell his name correctly. It's even in the headline of the article you linked.
Edgar Allan Poe - TheKriket, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~Edgar Allen Poe - pinkpackrat, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4now this sounds llike an interesting exhibit. I just might have to go see it. Love Poe-- Once upon a midnight dreary etc.. etc, etc,
- DesertTripper, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1True genius: this excerpt from Poe's "Marginalia," which was spoken by Orson Welles as an intro to the 1987 remake of Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," which features musical interpretations of several of Poe's most famous works. I can only dream of crafting such an exquisite passage:
"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it....There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul (alas, how rarely!) only at epochs of most intense tranquility--when the bodily and mental health are in perfection--and at those mere points of time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.....And so, I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream." - bnbjyofs, on 10/30/2009, -3/+1Poe was a very good poet, but his stories never impressed me. Read Lovecraft for scary *****.
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