Friday, May 04, 2007

Procrastination, Part 24

Tonight I think I'm going to read some Edgar Allen Poe stories. I'm not in a particularly macabre mood. It's just that after reading that Mark Twain didn't like him, I feel that I probably will.

To wit: "To me his prose is unreadable—like Jane Austen's," he wrote in a January 18, 1909 letter to William Dean Howells.

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