Edgar Allan

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    “In the greenest of our valleys
    By good angels tenanted,
    Once a fair and stately palace—
    Radiant palace—reared its head.
    In the monarch Thought’s dominion,
    It stood there!”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
    —Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)

    “It was night, in the lonesome October”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)