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What does /lit/ think happened during Edgar Allen Poe's 24 hours on this Earth? And was Poe a drunk?

Why are so many writer's drunks?

>> No.6160007

>>6160004
Sorry I meant to say
>What does /lit/ think happened during Edgar Allen Poe's LAST 24 hours on this Earth?

>> No.6160043

i haven't read much about the guy but he was an opium fiend and he probably OD'd. his final 24 hours were probably spent eating opiates until he couldn't feel his legs and then stumbling around the street like the addict he was before collapsing in whatevet gutter they found him in and never waking up again.

>> No.6160081

>>6160043
I always thought it was something more sinister behind his death like he was murdered.

>> No.6160090
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6160090

>>6160043
Dankest of memes, m80

>> No.6160094

>>6160007
Much, most of it unrelated to Edgar Allen Poe.

>> No.6160132

>>6160094
How do you mean?

>> No.6160145

>>6160132
sigh

>> No.6160206

>>6160081
Some people have put forth the theory that he was drugged by electoral agents (back in the time both major parties would pay thugs to take tourists and hapless-looking people, get them drunk and/or drug them, and drag them through multiple voting booth so that they could be made to vote for the party several times). Apparently Poe's frail health and alcohol sensitivity wouldn't have allowed him to survive such a treatment.

But I don't know, really.

>> No.6160237

>>6160145
Care to elaborate on that sigh, sir?

>> No.6160263

>>6160237
Are you really too dense to figure out what he meant?

>> No.6160268

>>6160263
I don't get it it please help.

>> No.6160296

>>6160268
He's saying that nearly everything that happened during Poe's last 24 hours on earth had nothing to do with Poe. For example, thousands of people were born that day but none of that had anything to do with Poe's death.

>> No.6160314

>>6160206
This. I don't think even Poe would completely throw themselves off the deep end when they he was in Baltimore to pull himself back into good repute.

>> No.6160324

>>6160296
But what happened with Poe in his world?

>> No.6160448

>>6160004
Best AUTHOR ever, par none. We should clone him.

>> No.6160467

I think most writers write because they don't get much out of life itself - their imagination drives them more than the world around them; which also might explain their need to dull their senses with alcohol.

This world simply wasn't meant for them, and they get their release by writing on paper how things ought to be.

>> No.6160506

>>6160004
I wish Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe could have a homosexual relationship and somehow get the other pregnant... because their child would be the best AUTHOR EVA!

>> No.6160555

>>6160004
All his short stories are just the same shit

>> No.6160681

>>6160555
Are you nuts or do you have no taste buds in your eyes?

>> No.6160793

I wish Edgar had written a full length horror novel.

>> No.6162765

>>6160467
> This world simply wasn't meant for them, and they get their release by writing on paper how things ought to be.

Then the world by Poe was disturbing.

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6162781

>>6160555

Imagine my embarassment in getting halfway through The Masque of the Red Death only to realize I was in fact reading The Casque of Amontillado.

>> No.6162805

>>6162781
This woman would look better with a beard.

>> No.6163385

>>6160324
He died at the end of his last 24 hours.

>> No.6163388

>>6162805
Let's just remove her jaw, that way she'll shut the fuck up as well.