Mon 19 Jan 2009
Many Dreary Returns
Posted by anaglyph under Books, Nostalgia, Poetry, Words
[12] Comments
Edgar Allan Poe is 200 years old today (but still doesn’t look a day over 40!). So break out the Amontillado and raise a glass at midnight to one of the Great Dark Geniuses of our age.
you know I’ll be in bed by midnight. May I do it at 11 pm instead?
I wonder if he liked pickled herring?
Nurse Myra: It’s always midnight somewhere in the world.
Atlas: OK, OK, I’ll get your prize organized this week!
Love Edgar Allen Poe…you might have figured that out with all the Ravens on my back, but they do symbolize many things to me.
We have a place here called the Deer Park Inn, where many a notable individuals have stated, including Poe.
http://www.deerparktavern.com/tavern/history.html
Fun little bit of history. They use to make the best nacho plate in town, but they have gone all snooty on us with the menu. :)
It is located in the heart of a major university campus where you will see bikers with professors, goth with the jocks all in one place. Lots of bands have played there over the years and many have gone head first through the first floor windows when an unresolved conflict comes up. Other wise, a really classy joint.
Nevermore!
Poor bugger, he looks like a forceps birth if ever I saw one.
Glass duly raised.
The King
I was gonna wax lyrickle, but I dont wanna be blamd fer causin a massive lyrickle wax off or anything.
MI: >>As he (Edgar Allan Poe) was attempting to ascend from a carriage at the Inn (Deer Park), he was reputed to have fallen in the mud and was so upset that he put a curse on the Inn.
Quite an interesting achievement to be able to ascend from a carriage (I guess it could have been a very small carriage). I can quite sympathise with Mr Poe, and almost hear him whispering ‘Nevermore!’ under his breath as he gets the first ideas for The Fall of the House of Usher…
King Willy: Sláinte Mr Poe!
Joey: Possibly wise.
Maybe they were trying to be nice by saying “ascend” instead of “the drunken bastard fell flat on his face in the mud.” Dunno, I wasn’t there…just speculating.
No doubt.
Ok, let me start a fight . . .
Poe . . he wishes he was HP Lovecraft . . .
Maybe Poe was tryin to ass-ovr-end from th carriage. Thatd explain th tumble … especially if he was drunkski too.
Malach: Ah, your usual incisive wit. Can we have the code to that Auto Comment Generator?
Joey: He was probably wearing a t-shirt that said ‘Shitfaced in Mudgee’.