Mysterious Fan Marks Poe's Birthday

Associated Press ^ | Wed, Jan 19, 2005 | KASEY JONES

[presidio9]

ping

[The Raven]

Nope - I wasn't in Baltimore

[Neets]

Prove it.

[nevergore]

Quoth the Raven......

NeverGore

(also NeverKerry - doen't have the same sound but is still ever so sweet!)

[presidio9]

Here's hoping the Raven has an axe o grind with a certain Junior Senator from my home state four years from now.

[arasina]

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Annabelle Lee! I love that poem!

A friend and I visited the Edgar Allan Poe gravesite and little house some years back. The guy who worked there (portraying Poe) is quite strange.

[CrazyIvan]

OK, I'm linguistically challenged, that's not something about my mother is it?

[ElTianti]

OK, I'm linguistically challenged, that's not something about my mother is it?

No, not at all.

It means: No one may attack me with impunity.
It's on the Montressor family crest as mention in "The cask of amontillado."

It's a great story and a must read for any Poe fan.

[CrazyIvan]

Very interesting, I'll have to make note of that. Not a bad philosophy to live by either. I'm not a Poe expert but I also loved "Cask". For some perverse reason I've always loved tales where there is some form of sweet revenge involved. Have you ever read the short story "Bargain"?

[Hot Tabasco]

Now that was WAY too funny, -if you just made

LOL! I didn't know what the heck he was talking about till your post took me back to it. DUH! Guess I shoveled too much snow this morning......

[Capn TrVth]

"Quoth the Raven...... NeverGore"

TheoGore Bump!

[ElTianti]

No; who wrote it?

[CrazyIvan]

I just remember the story. I think I read it while in Jr. High. I have tried several Internet searches for it but can't find a thing! Of course typing in "Bargain" and anything else pretty well dilutes the search with sales information. I'll keep looking!