I have just finished reading a couple of biographies on Edgar Allan Poe. And while I won't get into specifics, I will say that his characterizations of the women he knew seem to have been a mixture of angelic bliss and a morbid sense of abandonment. He was obsessed with a nether region between the two, which he worked out hither and yon into the stories we know. And no other story demonstrated this as clearly - if anything by Poe is clear - as The Fall Of The House Of Usher, my favorite story.
It begins - "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day, in the autumn of the year ..."
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