Ashley

“Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac —Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul faisant l’attaque De la nation Coseaque, La mettroit au sac; De Charon je passerois le lac En dormant dans son bac, J’irois au fier Eac, Sans que mon coeur fit tic ni tac, Premmer du tabac. —French Vaudeville”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

“Mishipeshu”
― Linda S. Godfrey, American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America

“And they hated her for her pride —But she grew in feeble health, And they love her —that she died.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

“Prisoners are submissive and obedient up to a point, but there is a limit which must not be crossed. Nothing is more curious than these strange outbursts of disobedience and rage. Often a man who has for years endured the cruellest punishment will revolt for a trifle, for a mere nothing. He might pass for a madman; that, in fact, is what is said of him.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead