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minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThat got dark quickly. I’m sincerely impressed. Good job.
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoJust a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!
minus-squareRayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoIs that not from the Bible?
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoYeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoA misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.
Is there no balm in Gilead?
That got dark quickly. I’m sincerely impressed. Good job.
Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!
Is that not from the Bible?
Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
A misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.