Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Stitched Deaths: Edgar Allan Poe

(d. Oct. 7, 1849)





















Left behind at the fountain in front of the Providence Athenaeum.

Quote is his last. In a delirious state, Poe called out the name, "Reynolds!" over and over again while held in a prison-like hospital. A man of words, he was reduced to near incomprehension in his last days.

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