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On Edgar Allan Poe

27 points by drjohnson 11y ago

Jun8 11y ago
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1207 http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1207 I always wondered why there aren't more comic books about him given his stories, his melancholic looks, sad death, etc. He's a ready-made comic book hero!
smcnally 11y ago
And, in 1849, he predicted modern cosmology? "In the last year of his life he wrote a prose poem, Eureka ... Eureka describes the origins of the universe in a single particle, from which “radiated” the atoms of which all matter is made. Minute dissimilarities of size and distribution among these atoms meant that the effects of gravity caused them to accumulate as matter, forming the physical universe. ... This by itself would be a startling anticipation of modern cosmology," and / but he also drew conclusions: "for example that space and “duration” are one thing, that there might be stars that emit no light, that there is a repulsive force that in some degree counteracts the force of gravity, that there could be any number of universes with different laws simultaneous with ours, that our universe might collapse to its original state and another universe erupt from the particle it would have become, that our present universe may be one in a series." I'm a fan and didn't know this.
jhallenworld 11y ago
Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.

27 points by drjohnson 11y ago

Jun8 11y ago

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1207 http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1207 I always wondered why there aren't more comic books about him given his stories, his melancholic looks, sad death, etc. He's a ready-made comic book hero!

smcnally 11y ago

And, in 1849, he predicted modern cosmology? "In the last year of his life he wrote a prose poem, Eureka ... Eureka describes the origins of the universe in a single particle, from which “radiated” the atoms of which all matter is made. Minute dissimilarities of size and distribution among these atoms meant that the effects of gravity caused them to accumulate as matter, forming the physical universe. ... This by itself would be a startling anticipation of modern cosmology," and / but he also drew conclusions: "for example that space and “duration” are one thing, that there might be stars that emit no light, that there is a repulsive force that in some degree counteracts the force of gravity, that there could be any number of universes with different laws simultaneous with ours, that our universe might collapse to its original state and another universe erupt from the particle it would have become, that our present universe may be one in a series." I'm a fan and didn't know this.

jhallenworld 11y ago

Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.