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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2012-12-31 10:54 pm

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"[A]fter his wife's death in 1847 he drank heavily and died mysteriously in Baltimore."

Makes it seem as though dying is a repeated, habitual action like the drinking. Which I guess in Poe it kind of is.

[identity profile] grashupfer.livejournal.com 2013-01-02 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
The idea of drinking to death as mysterious? Or I'm reading between the lines...