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Comments From a Real Bostonian: Ira Seskin A thought though. Maybe it's the fact that I am a lifetime Bostonian. Your Poe pages (so far) fail to explain ( or even cover) the Poe/Boston connection. For those of us who have been brought up in this area, Castle Island seems to have a significant place in Poe history. Although he was only briefly stationed at the fort as a lowly Lt. ( I believe), his stay inspired one of his greatest short stories. In fact, there are still believers out here that look for a sealed wall with a body behind it, whenever excavations/renovations take place at the fort on Castle Island. Yes, bodies have been found, but none attributed to the legend of an Officer being sealed up in one of the endless corridors of the fort......yet. PF's Response: Let's go see what this Boston is all about.... Mar. 04-11, 1995 The Poe pendulum starts swinging from NCF
It lists "all Poe resources on the Net," according to Forrest, "pix, bio, links to classical music, NASA, St. Petersburg Russia, Moscow Photo Gallery, the Raven, complete works ... etc." The Ottawa trekker is getting positive feedback for his initiative from all over the world and is rightly proud of his work. "Call this a bit of over-grotesque self-indulgence," he said. The House of Usher is at: http://infoweb.magi.com/~forrest/index.html. Net Trek Columnist for the Ottawa X Press Thanx Pierre... I just came across your wonderful site and am quite excited. I've been looking for a page on Poe and yours definitely is one of the best I have seen thus far. Keep up the good work!
caseyh PF replies: Any hypochondriac as Usher would gladly take frequent visits to the Cabinet of Dr. Casey!!! hehehe! You betcha! Apr. 14-Apr. 20, 1995 The Scales of Justice Have Been Tipped! Two Houses of Usher!
I've just stumbled onto your 'House of Usher' page. Below is the reference to my home page, named, naturally, the House of Usher I look forward to browsing around your POE information! Ron Usher, Vancouver, B.C. PF replies: This town's not big enough for two houses of Usher.... one must crumble.. or as long as you rename yours USHER.BAK hehehe! May 26-June 02, 1995 Bill Shefski writes: Just looked at your page. Neat link to the Nasa Pluto page from the phrase Plutonian shore in The Raven. Perhaps with the second reference of the phrase, some link could be made -- and since Pluto the planet was not discovered until 1930, it was probably the primary image in Poe's choice of the phrase -- to the mythological Pluto, guardian of the dead, whose lower regions was deeded to him in the gods' division of the world. I imagine the shore mentioned would be that of river Styx. Now how does Mickey Mouse's dog figure into it? ,-)
===== June 15-June 22, 1995 (C.) August(e Dupin) Trometer's Explanation About Poe's Last Hours
PF replies: Ah, cher Monsieur Dupin (from Paris oh la la!) I am glad you have been able to shed some light into the mysterious circumstances surrounding Poe's demise. I do indeed appreciate these factoids (Parisien slang!!!) so much I've added your words to the site in another place. Luckily, I borrowed H.G. Well's time machine and went back to record Poe's last words:
September 03-September 24, 1995 A Letter Concerning Poe's Graveyard Dictionary Darren George writes: Hey, if you're including words not in English...
I'll probably get a thousand angry responses from people who actually speak these languages, saying I've made mistakes in going from one alphabet to another or I'm using an obscure word. Blame it on my dictionaries. PF replies: Aha! Passing the buck again to yer' ol' dictionaries... a true prolific academic I must say! If you really have to know, well I blame everything on these DICTIONARIES!!! Ravin' of the Week (October 06- October 20, 1995) mclaughl@... writes about Poe's Flophouse : Not a poem or anything crazy, but a couple pieces of trivia you might find interesting. There is a Bed & Breakfast in Nye Beach (Newport) Oregon, on the coast -- The Sylvia Beach Hotel, which has about 21 rooms each decorated to look like a famous author lives there. The Poe room is dark, done mostly in reds and blacks. There is a large raven on a shelf near the bed, an a pendulum over the bed which a hidden switch can activate to move. The hotel itself is a redone flophouse, right on the beach. It sounds like a place you might enjoy visiting, just for the fun of it! My daughter is a student at U.Va., where Poe studied. He lived in one of the original dorm rooms designed by Thomas Jefferson. I don't know much more about the history of his days there, but I do know that he lived in ......................#13! Enjoyed your web site -- this was one of those nights when ascertain middle school daughter remembered at the last minute that she didn't have a copy of the poem she has to have memorized tomorrow! Your site sure saved her behind! PF replies: Hotel rooms with a Poe motif and a dorm room #13, how POEtic! Two worthy daughters following in the footsteps of Poe!!! What can I say, but supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Submit your own Ravings Under Poe's Weeping Willow Tree
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Dust off your old Alan Parson Project album
and point your browser to Peter Forrest-Lindquist's (az462@freenet.carleton.ca) World Wide
Web site for Edgar Allan Poe called The House of Usher. The place is amazing.
I hope you don't mind me adding a link to my own
page, 
PF replies: Then Pluto
can just go to Hades then! hehehe! Re: Mickey's Dog, he's working at Euro-Disney in
France smoking a cigarette and drinking wine and couldn't be coerced away into taking part
in this trivial page! 
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