Boston Reclaims Native Son Edgar Allan Poe With Statue, More

[Mad Madison]

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertai...th_statue_more

Yeh, because the likes of Del Toro and Gaiman are dying in penury and know exactly what Poe went through. Not.

Mark S.

Quote Originally Posted by mark_samuels

Yeh, because the likes of Del Toro and Gaiman are dying in penury and know exactly what Poe went through. Not. Mark S.

LOL, right. Not to mention that neither of them is an American (okay, maybe Gaiman has naturalized by now, not sure).

[Robin Davies]

Quote Originally Posted by Howarth

Quote Originally Posted by mark_samuels Yeh, because the likes of Del Toro and Gaiman are dying in penury and know exactly what Poe went through. Not. Mark S. LOL, right. Not to mention that neither of them is an American (okay, maybe Gaiman has naturalized by now, not sure).

Have I missed something here? Should they not have contributed? And why do they have to be American?

[marioneta]

Great news! And about time. I just hope that someone from the Cultural Police does not start a campaign to remove the statue for some politically correct writer who was not a racist, a sexist, anti-gay, and a scion of multiculturalism.
A case can be made that Poe was pro-slavery and might have supported the South in the Civil War had he lived longer. That is if you want to judge him by our present, "enlightened' standards, but then you would be a member of the Cultural Police.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

- Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary

[teguififthzeal]

Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe - YouTube