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I would want a memoir from EA Poe after he was dead. I want to know exactly what happened to him on the last day of his life. Why was he disheveled and wearing clothes that didn't fit him? Did he have rabies? Was the famous author killed from a beating? From carbon monoxide poisoning? From alcohol withdrawal? Cooping? Brain tumor? Flu? Murder? #theafterlifememoir 😀
mabell That is truly an intriguing real life mystery! 10mo
dabbe @mabell 🤩😀🤗 10mo
Bookwomble I listened to an In Our Time podcast about Poe the other day, and one of the panelists speculated that, perhaps, he'd been "press ganged" into voting fraud, which was apparently a thing at the time - fake identity and "voter" threatened into the ballot to support a particular candidate. And, checking just now for reliability, I find this article on Wikipedia about "cooping": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooping ?⬛ 10mo
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dabbe @Bookwomble VERY interesting! Thanks! 🤗 10mo
Bookwomble @dabbe Thank you, though I belatedly notice that you already mentioned cooping in your original post. Apologies - I wasn't intending to mansplain! 🫣 10mo
dabbe @Bookwomble You gave me more to look at--no mansplaining at all! 🤩😂😀 10mo
Bookwomble @dabbe Phew! 😅 10mo
BookmarkTavern Yeah! That would be super interesting! Thanks for answering! 10mo
dabbe @Bookwomble You. Crack. Me. Up. 🤩 10mo
dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🤩 10mo
Bookwomble @dabbe Thank goodness somebody has finally found a use for me! I must tell the missus! 😄 10mo
dabbe @Bookwomble 👍 10mo
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