Dean, if it is that old, they might not let anyone take it out of the
Library, but I will find out.
Mike
Mike,
Just do what you can. If I hear from the LLoyd Foundation, I'll let you
know.
A dead body is brought up in the book, but something about a murder being
witnesses along the lines of a " keep quiet "warning would be something new.
One does get the impression of a network-type conspiracy on the surface,
which seems to be the case.
Dharma/Dean
List Members,
I experienced some confusion yesterday because there was some cleanup going
on around me; I know that at one point I was going to say something about
Edgar Allan Poe, but I don't think that I did it. I kept getting
interrupted.
I wanted to get back to that person who brought up a manuscript found in
Virginia attributed to him about some people who fell into the hollow Earth,
or something like that. I don't even remember if it was on this list or not!
I have been active for a week now on a Hindu-type list which had been
discussing possible Vedic origins of world civilisation, and they have
jumped right in. So it might have been on that list.
Anyway, I had heard some time ago that Poe was involved in the theory. I
recently re-read The Fall of the House of Usher, and the suggestion of a
world beneath the ground is obvious. But I don't know to what extent he was
involved. He spent large parts of the first half of his life in Virgina and
North Carolina, though, and those are areas where there are lots of caves.
In fact, the area isn't too far from the area where the entrance described
in Etidorhpa exists.
Maybe this is why Poe died so young, maybe he was going to run his mouth, or
his pen.
The Fall of the House of Usher isn't too hard to find on a search engine, it
takes about 15 minutes to read. Here is the first verse of The Raven:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more."
Dharma/Dean