Members Lucky Posted August 9, 2012 Members Posted August 9, 2012 No doubt there were so many replies to this that management had to cut them off to prevent server overload! Maybe it just needs a little sex appeal? Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 10, 2012 Author Posted August 10, 2012 You have a one-track mind! (As opposed to me...!) Quote
Members Lucky Posted August 10, 2012 Members Posted August 10, 2012 Hey, you're the one who can state with expertise that a large percentage of non-escort gay men in Manhattan engage in barebacking! I have not met any of them! Quote
Members Lucky Posted August 10, 2012 Members Posted August 10, 2012 Poe is in the news even today! http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/mystery-of-a-poe-relic-the-raven-mantels-curious-journey/?ref=nyregion Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 11, 2012 Author Posted August 11, 2012 I have not met any of them! You simply lack sufficient nostalgie de la boue. (As the frogs put it, with characteristically irritating aptness.) La boue is where I spent the majority of my time in Gotham. Quote
Members lookin Posted August 11, 2012 Members Posted August 11, 2012 Given the never-ending tsuris that dogged Poe throughout his life, I'm surprised his characters got off as easy as they did. With consumption taking his beloved wife (his cousin whom he met when she was nearly nine and married four years later), he was unable to escape his demons even through drink, as a single glass of wine or weak cider was enough to get him snockered. Unable to hold a job for long, he lived well below the poverty line nearly every year of his adult life and his family eventually tired of bailing him out. He wrote in the days before copyright law, with the initial payment for a poem or story usually all he ever got. Others, though, did profit from his work. According to one article, here's Poe's take for a number of his best pieces: MS. Found in a Bottle - $50 (a prize, not a payment) Ligeia - $10 The Haunted Palace - $5 The Fall of the House of Usher - $24 William Wilson - $50 The Murders in the Rue Morgue - $56 The Masque of the Red Death - $12 The Tell-Tale Heart - $10 The Black Cat - $20 The Gold-Bug - $100 (a prize, not a payment, and likely Poe's largest haul) The Purloined Letter - $12 The Raven - $9 (Earning him a fraction of what he made on The Gold-Bug, Poe wrote, “The bird beat the bug, though, all hollow.”) The Cask of Amontillado - $15 Ulalume - $20 Eureka - $14 (an advance, and probably all he ever got) The Bells - $45 Annabel Lee - $10 Frankly, had it been me, I doubt any of my characters would have endured less than getting their kishkas wound around a windlass. (Actually, poor St. Elmo, pictured above, blazed that trail, also enduring other defilements that are best discovered on an empty stomach.) Quote
Members MsGuy Posted August 12, 2012 Members Posted August 12, 2012 Jeez, old Elmo had more staying power than the killer in a teen slasher movie. Is this really what Catholic kids study in religion class? lookin 1 Quote
