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Happy posthumous birthday (#197) to Edgar Allen Poe.

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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe

Such as at last eternity transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored

Death triumphant in so strange a voice!

They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly proclaimed it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.

From soil, and hostile cloud, O grief,
If our imagination can’t carve a bas-relief
With which to deck Poe’s dazzling sepulchre,

Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever
To dark flights of Blasphemy scattered in the future.

(Stephane Mallarme)

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If anyone gets the chance, I reccommend 'The Breathless Man', brilliant!

Poe is fantastic and more people should be made aware of him.

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Originally posted by Starrman
If anyone gets the chance, I reccommend 'The Breathless Man', brilliant!

Poe is fantastic and more people should be made aware of him.
But he only writes horror(ish) type stories, a limited genre methinks

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Originally posted by Vladamir no1
But he only writes horror(ish) type stories, a limited genre methinks
That's just not true at all. He wrote a number of political and aesthetical essays, several stories on totally different genres, a few books of poetry and was a newspaper editor. He is only famous for his horror because of films which have lighted upon his imagination as a source of material.

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I posted this somewhere else, but this is a much more fitting place for it.

Parody of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.

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Today is my birthday too. What are the odds?

Don't tell me, I'll figure this one out myself.

Carry the one...