A retired English professor is giving a Halloween talk on Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. She explains she picked Poe partly because he is the American writer Europeans like best.
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…at you. It doesn't seem all that happy to me. Anyway, so I started thinking about Halloween and scary things, and I decided we should talk about Edgar Allan Poe for a minute. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer. He wrote short stories and poems. He's quite famous. And I want to tell you a few of his short stories. I'm going to give you a few of his short stories so that you can know why. He's famous. When we were in Europe, by the way, the number one American author that they like in Europe is Edgar Allan Poe. That would depress a few people, but yeah, you know, he was. He was brought up by an uncle sent to military school. Didn't work out too well. Was a dipsilomaniac. Do you know what that is? A dipsilomaniac.
I have no clue.
It is. Yeah, okay. Here you go. It is a person who can't hold his liquor. So they always have pictures of Poe underneath the table drunk, but probably it was because he had a glass of wine or something. Anyway, here we go. And he marries his 14-year-old niece, which was a cousin, which was…
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