Well, the youngest von Luckner turns one year old today! No more the raucous rebellion of the zeros for her. No, she has taken on the mantle of responsibility with a gravitas and due sense of humility fitting for her advanced years. She has staked out a career in the military as her lot, being the second child, and will leave tomorrow for the Crimea.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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Newton is botching the job of hacking Melville and Hawthorne into a cohesive whole, and so has sent Frederick to go fetch Poe by way of filling in the holes. Dirtier Charlemagne in hand, Poe seems only too glad to help, and perhaps more than that. It’s Frederick the Great! It’s Edgar Allen Poe! It’s a bit of reason pulled from a cloud of madness, and it’s in Episode 156: The Man Who Would be Poe!
– Geoff and The Count
So, one of my very first exposures to Poe was in the book The Man Who Was Poe by Avi.
I think I read this book when I was ten or so.
Anyway, what this book taught me about Poe was that:
1.) He was a bad ass detective when he could get hootched up enough to give a shit.
2.) He was perfectly willing to kill people, or merely let them die through inaction, in order to find inspiration for a story.
I have since learned that these facts that form the kernel of my impressions about Poe are, more or less, incorrect.
However, the Poe I present in this episode is more of the one inside my childish heart than not; tanked to the gills and figuring things out. (It is possible that I hadn’t yet discovered Sherlock Holmes when I first read “The Man Who Was Poe” or was reading Holmes around the same time, causing some bleed in my impressions.)
–Geoff
Here are about half of the colors, the rest are coming soon!
–Geoff