I'm all for Boston having an Edgar Allan Poe Square, but does the intersection of Charles Street and Boylston really stir Poe-y feelings in anyone's heart? It may be near his birthplace, but when I think of Poe I think of him writing The Pit and the Pendulum in a mad frenzy and then falling into a gutter drunk. By Emerson and the Common, in view of PF Chang and the Four Seasons, is not a good place to fall into a gutter drunk. The only thing that can be said to be macabre about the area is perhaps the creepy way the Cold Stone Creamery people burst into song. But if a raven nests on the street sign, I'll shut up.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Poe Square!
I'm all for Boston having an Edgar Allan Poe Square, but does the intersection of Charles Street and Boylston really stir Poe-y feelings in anyone's heart? It may be near his birthplace, but when I think of Poe I think of him writing The Pit and the Pendulum in a mad frenzy and then falling into a gutter drunk. By Emerson and the Common, in view of PF Chang and the Four Seasons, is not a good place to fall into a gutter drunk. The only thing that can be said to be macabre about the area is perhaps the creepy way the Cold Stone Creamery people burst into song. But if a raven nests on the street sign, I'll shut up.
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Hahaha - I love it!
By which I mean that I totally agree. That intersection is not Poe-y at all. Isn't there a posh furniture store across from PF Chang's?
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