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To: Grainne who wrote (22902)	6/26/1998 7:56:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Respond to of 108807

Hi Chrissy, doesn't look like I got many takers on the Poe crypto. Lot of time on his hands? Hmm, well he was a well known opium addict, and alachoholic, and I'd bet he had plenty of bed sores to prove it. During my 7 year stint in college, I did a lot of dirrected and independent studies on Poe and other "dark Romantics)- I was an English Lit.(I know you can't tell from my grammar)/ ceramics major. I found his writing the most facinating of any from that era. Save Hawthorne perhaps. Walt Witman was cool also. But Emmerson and Melvile just too damn boring and their writing I found to be jerky, and unfluid. The thing with Poe was that there were always secrete messages in most of his short stories. Take the first word from first sentence, second word from second sentence, ect.... Those were the easy ones. Others were a bit to rediciliously obscure and gave me a good brain cramp too many times. I still go back (when I'm in a reclusive frame of mind) and toy around with some of it. It is so timeless, I doubt it'll ever be appreciated. If you want a good one with tremendous reverse symbolism, try his novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Tough to get through, but well worth the time spent. Any other Poe fans(fanatics) out there?