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Mon 10 Mar, 2003 01:34 pm
"Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path." ; from a letter by Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
That's a great line, New Haven. I studied Poe in college, but we never looked at his letters. Have they been published?
Literature WAS the most noble of professions
Alas, I fear that today this may be not as true
as it was in 1849.
But, if one leaves out all journalism in total,
then literature still remains today as the most
noble of all professions fit for male or female.
I'll check and see if Poe's letters have been published.
i'm amazed that that worked...
never posted a link before...
Copy and paste the link for accuracy. Always works.
Thanks for the link, mikey. Isn't the web something? In the not too distant past, you'd have to go to a major academic library and hope it had such an item...
Do you remember the "Card Catalogue"?
Indeed I do, New Haven. I had a job 20+ years ago, filing new cards in a university library card catalogue. The instruction manual was more than 50 pages long!
Times have certainly changed.
Do you remember the first computers, where you had to use punched cards to feed data into the computer?
My favourite Poe quote is this one from "Eleonora":
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only by night.
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