Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command
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Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command
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#3He was also into cryptography: https://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/historical/poe.html
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#4I produced CC0 ebook compilations of Poe’s short fiction and poetry for Standard Ebooks if anyone is interested in diving deeper into his writing: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe
(I’d also recommend Leonid Andreyev’s short fiction; he’s often referred to as Russia’s Poe: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict... )
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#5Alternatively, his life was exactly what it had to be for him to do what he was supposed to.
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#6Alternatively, his life was exactly what it had to be for him to do what he was supposed to.
I wonder what he would choose if he knew? A comfortable long life and happiness or to be remembered forever?
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#7Although Edgar Allan Poe is well known, I think his influence is under appreciated. He pretty much invented the detective story genre with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his "Eureka: A Prose Poem" was early sci-fi that more or less invented the idea of the Big Bang.
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#8Was just reading about Churchill's alcoholism in a bio and looks like Poe was right there with him on that front. My favorite Poe visual is the The Masque of the Red Death. Probably wrote it blasted out of his mind.
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#9Someone should summarize for Poe fans who don't support WaPo.
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#10Someone should summarize for Poe fans who don't support WaPo.
Maybe just read the article through the archive link instead?