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On Jan 30, 7:43 pm, HK wrote:
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You've been reading too much Dickens.
Eisboch
Every few years, I reread three or four of his novels. I guess I
have
been through the entire cycle a half dozen times or more.
My mother, bless her heart, was an avid reader (still is) and all
through my childhood insisted that I read at least a book a week
during
the summer school vacation. She didn't care what I read, as long as
I
read at least a book a week. I remember it started with the "Hardy
Boys" series back in about 6th grade. As I got older, she would
"suggest" certain books to read.
One year though, I found a very old collection of Edgar Allen Poe's
complete works in a bookcase in the attic. I started reading some of
his stuff and I think it freaked her out.
I got a brief reprieve from reading that summer. The books (or book
... can't remember if it was a single, thick book or several) were
(was) bound in real leather and looked as spooky as some of Poe's
tales.
Eisboch
Next time you are near baltimore, you should stop to see poe's grave
and
the poe museum. Great, orginal writer.- Hide quoted text -

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So what could possibly be fun about seeing someone's grave?

Depends on the grave. Napoleon Bonaparte's is extremely interesting.
Les Invalides paris.


Everything about Poe is interesting to the literate:

"Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have
long since gone my way into the region of shadows."

To the illiterate or near-illiterate, I suppose it doesn't matter.

Poe was interesting. Supposedly his niece lived in a house where my
childhood home was built. She piled a bunch of tires under the house
and torched it with herself inside. Maybe nuts ran in the family.

You were brought up in a house built on the ashes of that
tragedy....explains a lot!


Yup. Makes one have a sense of humor. Maybe you should spread some ashes
around your house.

I had planned something like that about 20 years ago. I wanted to spread or
bury the ashes of my first Springer Spaniel around my 1st house in the
country...(lot was 375 feet deep) but never got around to it. House is
still there so I may still do it. Have to admit..it was a very well
constructed cedar Cape Cod style home built by an energetic younger version
of me back in 1975.