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Birthday
• 1990-07-27
Gender
• Male
Location
• Wandering my imagination.
Member Since
• 2003-10-25
Occupation
• Searching for Love where I won't find it.
Real Name
• Jacob

Personal

Achievements
• I've admitted I'm hopeless.
Anime Fan Since
• Ummm... four years? Maybe?
Favorite Anime
• Last Exile, Yu-Yu Hakusho, and Outlaw Star to name just a few.
Goals
• I hope to be a Sci-Fi author!
Hobbies
• Sci-fi, video games, books, RPGing online, my computer, anime/manga... that sums it up pretty well.
Talents
• Overactive Imagination.

myOtaku.com: FirePheonix727

Friday, March 5, 2004

Quothe the raven... 'Nevermore'.
Yes, the infamous line from Edgar Allan Poe's work of poetical genious, "The Raven". I have only found recently how much Poe's work fascinates me... his outlook on everything, escpeialy death, is so defiently warped, one cannot help but be sucked into it's, for lack of a more gratifying word, finesse.

To truly understand how Edgar became so... er, "warped", then you have to take a look at his life. When he was very, very young, his father left his mother, and perhaps several years later, his mother caught Tuburculosis(sp?), wich, if you don't know, ruptures an artery near your lunges, and causes you to caigh up blood until you die. Young Edgar witnessed this. He was eventualy taken in by the Allan family (hence Edgar ALLAN Poe) and taught to be a gentlemen, and was very well educated.. despite his new "father" rather disliking him. Later, his new mother also died of tuburculosis. Of course, Mr. Allan really didn't want anything to do with Edgar, so he sent him away to a crummy, violent university. Though now becoming an artist and an excellent story-writer, he was in a financial crisis. His father had given him only enough money to get there, and nothing more. Eventually, he had to go live with his aunt, and his eight year old cousin. Now get this... he falls in love with his cousin, who may have aged a little now, but is still under thirteen, and... she dies of tuburculosis. Three wemon he loved (two as a mother, one as a cousin and love) had now died, his young cousin being the slowest... over the course of several years, if I remember correctly, she got better, then worse, and so on. Not to mention he's had two fathers dis-own him... there are several other events in Poe's life, but they are to numerous for me to type in.

Now it's easier to understand why so much of his work focussed on death and torture. His poetry and stories were constantly debating within themselves on the subject of what really happens in death, and many other delicate, complicated subjects.

Until another time, "Quothe the raven, 'Nevermore'".
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