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• @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-17 00:44

  @virtuosew I almost missed my chance to quote Edgar Allan Poe. 'The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe 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 visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”' ...[15 stanzas skipped]... “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting— “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven

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• @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-17 11:13

  @dougmerritt I don't remember a Norse flavour, but I'll ask Mam. Two memories are better than one!

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