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minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoJust a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!
minus-squareRayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 days agoIs that not from the Bible?
minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 days agoYeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoA misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.
Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!
Is that not from the Bible?
Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
A misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.