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[jedisnon]

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.- Edgar Allen Poe, The

Comments

[the_twilek]

I actually really dislike Poe nowadays. I dislike all writers that are too verbose. I think it kinda kills the writing. But thats just my taste, I'm pretty unsophisticated.

[jedisnon]

I find that the beauty of writing is not in the story, but in the words.

[the_twilek]

I wouldn't call Poe's writing beautiful, not at all, just very, very verbose. I think beauty is in sparsity, and in immediacy. Poe just throws around a lot of big, fancy words, so it sounds nice, but is really meaningless.

[jedisnon]

I'd say that there is a lot of meaning in Poe's writing. The meaing, however, is not where I find the beauty. I find the beauty in the words themselves, how it sounds, not what it means.