#alas I will purchase all of them as usual bc actually the one for pym that he ordered included a ton of critical essays that I want to look
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oh yeah shoutout to one of the students in my class today who pointed out it was edgar allan poe's birthday which started an impromptu 52 man happy birthday chorus for him. legendary behavior.
#also yeah catch me also mentioning awkwardly the northwest passage bit when we were going over 19th century history for poe's cultural#context#I MEAN ARTHUR GORDON PYM DID HAVE CANNIBALISM IN IT AND THAT CAME OUT LIKE 7 YEARS BEFORE THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION LEFT#no way that wasn't an influence for dan simmons' the terror. no way in hell#it certainly is one of my influences for LADY terror so there u have it#also jesus my prof ordered like a set of books that collectively cost like 120 bucks like good god dude#alas I will purchase all of them as usual bc actually the one for pym that he ordered included a ton of critical essays that I want to look#at that my editions don't have AND#one of the books he ordered is one he recently published on illustrators for poe works that I've been meaning to pick up for a while now#so I'm glad I finally have that but jesus christ man#also I just looooooove how one of my professors for a different class absolutely NEVER orders books for the bookstore. like lmao guess I'll#die thanks.
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