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My 1st edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (from The Folio Society) that @NatalieR bought me a couple of years ago. 🤗 I haven‘t fully opened the book yet (only slightly), because it‘s too pretty. Is that bad? 🤭 I ‘posed‘ it beside my Poe (Richard Masloski) statue. I found this one on eBay awhile back when the price was more reasonable. The Poe Museum, in Richmond sells them now. He keeps watch over my front door... 🤫

#bodyofwater Another pick that my mom was digging up today, in the storage boxes. I had bought this at a used shop, and then lost track of it 😅 I was having dust allergy reactions and put it away, pondering whether I'd get to reading it in the giant 'Complete Works' book. - By now, I'm sure to get it on the #serialreader app. #maybookflowers

The chunk of this novel that was about the protagonist hiding out as a stowaway on the ship for several weeks and nearly dying that way was some of the most psychologically compelling fiction I've ever read. Ultimately, however, I lost interest in the larger tale, especially during the final third, and can now say more or less equivocally that you couldn't pay me to read Moby Dick - I have had it with 19th century seafaring novels, thanks.

I feel like this pretty much every morning...

I thought my eyes would glaze over when I saw this passage but actually I found it to be fascinating.

Um, no. Perhaps the first time these words were ever spoken. Celery is indeed not a treat. (Neither is this book, btw.)

#whitespines #augustphotochallenge #day25

Trending today: Edgar Allan Poe's lone novel. An early example of weird fiction and a notable influence on later writers like H.P. Lovecraft. Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling ship and winds up surviving mutiny, cannibals and more on an increasingly strange journey to the South Pole.

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