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“—that sorrow which is the most lasting of impressions, as the cypress is the most enduring of trees.”

“her whom in life thou didst abhor, in death thou shalt adore”

ça philosophe sur la personne on dirait mes cours de prépa sur Locke pitié

“It is a happiness to wonder;— it is a happiness to dream”

I just don’t get it. He’s loving her company, listening to the sound of her voice when, “at length its melody was tainted with terror, and there fell a shadow upon my soul, and I grew pale.” Damnit Poe! Why you always gotta ruin a good thing!

So interesting; in the outset, he talks of his soul burning "with fires it had never before known; but the fires were not of Eros, and bitter and tormenting to my spirit was the gradual conviction that I could in no manner define their unusual meaning or regulate their vague intensity." Such an authentic description for how some experience strong emotion -I can't call it love- indeed, some can't love, like this man.

This is the EAP short story read for January 2025 with the dynamic group Horror or Heaven.