Re: Ping: The Mad Afro


"The Mad Afro" <madafro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 12, 10:39 pm, Some Guy <noemailformetha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Some Guy wrote:

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As promised, here are some excerpts from Poe that you may enjoy for
their adjective-laden fullness, or for their microcircuit-like
complexity, or both:

[snip great stuff]

There are, of course, innumerable others. Rather than waste the time of
the good people herein whose interest in the topic is cursory, not to
say non-existant or even antagonistic, I refer you again to the book
previously mentioned, important for its completeness and adherence to
the bulk of Poe's intended presentation of his work, as well as its
relative inexpensiveness compared with similar editions whose qualities,
like a gilded lily, may either remind us of the uselessness of
superfluousness or have been shorn of their more desirable stories by an
editor bereft of sense on whose ears the wails of the forsaken work fall
as does dirty London rain on soot-smeared windows in the heart of the
most polluted corners of that city, such as may still exist.

Heh. I think you were born in the wrong era. :) Thanks for the
quotes (and the lead on the book); it's been some years since I've
read any Poe.

In an era that celebrates the blurb, I'm at times refreshed by writers
who take their time coming to the point. I like William Gibson for
many of the same reasons; he tells you a story by describing it to
you.

Does he have any new books out?


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