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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.