herein lie the creative musings of stackers
07/17/2025 --
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an excerpt
there was a post here that recalled a time for me when i spent hours leafing the pages of volumes of collected works of Edgar Allan Poe. here is how one of my favourites begins:
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
—Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
are the desolate or terrible are more inspiring than the sublime?
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