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Denis

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Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« on: January 19, 2010, 06:52:28 AM »
Tonight I think I'll whip out my copy of Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination".


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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2010, 08:39:24 AM »
I just saw a story online that the mystery visitor to his gravesite did not show up early this morning.

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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 09:04:37 AM »
I saw that too. I wonder if the guy died suddenly without passing the torch. There have been several different different visitors over the years. A few years ago I visited Poe's graves and made rubbings of the tombstones for a friend and me.
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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2010, 04:58:02 PM »
I really like that first APP LP.

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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2010, 05:00:40 PM »
"Graves", Denis...? don't know much other than his name, and the "project"
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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2010, 06:25:01 PM »
Ken, here's a little background if you're not familiar: http://wjz.com/local/poe.grave.visitor.2.1435320.html

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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2010, 03:52:14 PM »
Got it... Cheers Dave...

Been to Burns' graves (in his case they are "multiple" which is why I accentuated the word "graves", which I presume is a typo - no pun). Burns was buried as a pauper, the grave is still there, as is his mausoleum, in the same graveyard...

I'll be raising a glass on Monday... (and toasting a veggie Haggis)
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Re: Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2010, 07:49:56 PM »
(and toasting a veggie Haggis)


I do believe that is an oxymoron Ken.  ;D
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