This is so true! Whenever I've noticed that when me and my friends are at our most moody and cynical, the one-liners fly like Super Grover 2.0 over a Muppet disaster area. And the landings aren't that nice, either. It must help to be made out of felt.Graverobber wrote:[quote="anomalocaris"
"Funny had better be sad somewhere."-Jerry Lewis.
Comedians are some of the most dark and desturbed of us.
It takes alot of damage to make a person go " huh, I think I'll go make people laugh at me today".
Comedy, no matter how innocent, is a raw, bloody wound in the comedians life.
Just what I've observed.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
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Re: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
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The rhyme is soooooo good.
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Does anyone remember the brilliant Roger Corman films that were all based on Edgar Allen Poe's works
House of Usher which starred Vincent Price and The Masque Of The Red Death were both terrifying.
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I remember The Masque of the Red Death - scared the living daylights out of me.dickens 100 wrote:I think this is wonderful. Some of his writing was creepy but still fantastic.
Does anyone remember the brilliant Roger Corman films that were all based on Edgar Allen Poe's works
House of Usher which starred Vincent Price and The Masque Of The Red Death were both terrifying.
A world is born again that never dies.
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The Premature Burialdickens 100 wrote:I will have to read all the other Poe again. What was the name of the story where someone was buried alive, then was scratching to get out of the coffin, unless it was a terrifying dream!
― Steven Wright
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@"Argie"Argie wrote:I'm not really familiar with Edgars work, but so far it sounds fabulous. As a child I adored Dr. Seuss (which seems pretty childish), but I also liked reading a big book of poems. I forgot the title and the author, but it was a big white book and had black and white pictures on the inside (it's a children's book).For now I'll experiment with Edgar Allen Poe.
Was it Shel Silverstein?
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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It's an astonishing piece of work.
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I have "The Conqueror Worm" memorized. And I love The Raven.
Poe is so good.