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01-18-2009, 10:20 PM
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Edgar Allan Poe at 200
Monday January 19th, 2009 will mark 200 years since the birth of the great American writer:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/200...009_index.html
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01-18-2009, 10:31 PM
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That slideshow was really interesting, thanks!
I didn't know The Raven was dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and that they corresponded about it.
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01-19-2009, 02:13 AM
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Happy birthday, Ed.
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01-19-2009, 03:08 AM
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Happy birthday to all, and to all a good night... 
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01-19-2009, 09:11 AM
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That's cool. Was he famous when he was alive?
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01-19-2009, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by mindless1
Was he famous when he was alive?
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Yes.
(this text is extra goff since it's black and utterly pointless)
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01-19-2009, 09:34 AM
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He got a nice caligraphy ... I've always though he wrote more like me ...
Thanks Humane
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01-19-2009, 10:07 AM
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I shall celebrate with a day of being shut in and going slowly mad, and later at night I shall watch The Masters Of Horror's version of The Black Cat ^_^
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01-19-2009, 01:38 PM
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I celebrated with a pastrami sammich! Mmmmm, pickles and pepperoncinis!
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01-19-2009, 01:44 PM
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I should break out the Roger Corman movies too, shouldn't I?
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01-19-2009, 01:53 PM
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Wow, I think I'll celebrate my reading some Poe. I think the Cask of Amontillado.
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01-19-2009, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Saya
I should break out the Roger Corman movies too, shouldn't I?
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OOOHHH! Yeah! I saw "The Pit and the Pendulum" back when I was in the first grade, and when I painted the scene in water color the next day at school, and my teacher asked what it was and I told her, it was the first time I had ever seen my teacher frown at me. But she didn't say anything. Just walked away whilst giving me the fish-eye.
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01-19-2009, 04:58 PM
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Ooooh really? *brings out raven-shaped chocolate cake*
"The Pit and the Pendulum" was a fun story. I should find my Poe book and read a story...
My favourite so far though is "Silence - A Fable." I did a painting based on it this fall. http://preussischblau.110mb.com/Full...rk/Silence.jpg
Funny/interesting that I happened to do it just over a month before his 200th birthday...
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