Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe ME: How come your stories don’t have happy endings? POE: What are you talking about? Everything I write has a happy ending. ME: Do you know what “happy” means? POE: Yeah, it’s that feeling you get when all hope is lost and the walls close in around you and you hear the ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump beating of your own heart so loud in your ears that you-- ME: You can just say, "no." POE: ...no.
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