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Re: Once upon a midnight dreary . . .
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lugnet.castle
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Sat, 1 Nov 2003 06:08:39 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> My mother would always dredge out a couple of Poe's works before Halloween and
> read them to me when I was a bow.
When were you a bow? I always thought of you as more of an arrow. (not a
straight arrow, but I digress)
> I always liked the Raven (though heavens
> knows I was clueless to what "nepenthe", "seraphim", "Gilead", and "Aideen" were
> at the time). So I sat here just now talking to no one but myself and gave
> quite a dramatic reading of it to the ether (which is the way Poe would have it,
> I suppose). Neatly illustrated with Lego. Now how about "The Telltale Heart"
> (or "The Tattletale Heart" as I transmogrified the title as a boy)? I can hear
> my mother's Peter Lorresque rendition in my mind. :-)
I can see "The Cask of Amontillado" as being pretty easy to do in a very nice
way, ne?
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| (...) You mispronunced that (if I wanted to type mispronOunced, you'd pronounce it correctly). Anyway, I always bow after applause. And yes, I have a bent arrow, but that is really not a subject for discussion on Lugnet!!! -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 1-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) My mother would always dredge out a couple of Poe's works before Halloween and read them to me when I was a bow. I always liked the Raven (though heavens knows I was clueless to what "nepenthe", "seraphim", "Gilead", and "Aideen" were at the (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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