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Two #FirstSentences for the price of one:
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
-- Opening sentence of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
and
"Across the flyleaf of my old *Commemorative Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Volume I* (the only one I owned), a strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe,' and signed my name. The hand was mine."
-- Opening sentences of Daniel Hoffman's *Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe* (1972)
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Will use this thread for reading notes on some Poe and on Hoffman's book over the next week or so. Details to follow. -
Two #FirstSentences for the price of one:
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
-- Opening sentence of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
and
"Across the flyleaf of my old *Commemorative Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Volume I* (the only one I owned), a strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe,' and signed my name. The hand was mine."
-- Opening sentences of Daniel Hoffman's *Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe* (1972)
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Will use this thread for reading notes on some Poe and on Hoffman's book over the next week or so. Details to follow. -
Two #FirstSentences for the price of one:
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
-- Opening sentence of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
and
"Across the flyleaf of my old *Commemorative Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Volume I* (the only one I owned), a strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe,' and signed my name. The hand was mine."
-- Opening sentences of Daniel Hoffman's *Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe* (1972)
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Will use this thread for reading notes on some Poe and on Hoffman's book over the next week or so. Details to follow. -
Two #FirstSentences for the price of one:
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
-- Opening sentence of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
and
"Across the flyleaf of my old *Commemorative Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Volume I* (the only one I owned), a strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe,' and signed my name. The hand was mine."
-- Opening sentences of Daniel Hoffman's *Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe* (1972)
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Will use this thread for reading notes on some Poe and on Hoffman's book over the next week or so. Details to follow. -
Two #FirstSentences for the price of one:
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
-- Opening sentence of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
and
"Across the flyleaf of my old *Commemorative Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes, Volume I* (the only one I owned), a strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe,' and signed my name. The hand was mine."
-- Opening sentences of Daniel Hoffman's *Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe* (1972)
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Will use this thread for reading notes on some Poe and on Hoffman's book over the next week or so. Details to follow.