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L for Ligeia

Lydian Ligeia didn't last
would she have given up forbidden wisdom
in exchange for lyterian?
Allan gulps in lypemania
as she sleeps underneath the earth 
where a lychgate stands 
even in her lysis she lies lyncean
- Hazel, Stasia Desiderata



Ligeia is a story about female beauty, intelligence, human mortality and opium-induced hallucinations of  resurrection, by Edgar Allan Poe. Trust Poe to weave brilliant tales out of his drunken episodes.  Now we have film adaptations as well as moments of literary luxury listening to his genius, The Conqueror Worm. 

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumber... (source)

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  1. MerylOctober 4, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    Poe was one awesome, talented, troubled artist...

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  2. RajeshOctober 5, 2011 at 12:08 AM

    This is wonderful.

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  3. Kathy BischopingOctober 5, 2011 at 12:09 AM

    I have to laugh at getting an opium-dream intervention into one of the more bureaucratic moments of my day.

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  4. photowannabeOctober 5, 2011 at 1:00 AM

    This is kind of a wild dream and post. Lots of L words not commonly used.

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  5. Scriptor SenexOctober 5, 2011 at 1:51 AM

    I Like Learning on people's blogs - thanks for bringing me L for Ligeia.

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  6. Rinkly RimesOctober 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM

    I'd never heard of this poor lady who seems to have come to a sticky end. But it all sounds very Poe-ish to me.

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  7. Roger Owen GreenOctober 5, 2011 at 6:17 AM

    My daughter is Lydian - or specifically, Lydia.
    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  8. GattinaOctober 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    I learned something new !
    Gattina
    ABC Team

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  9. CarverOctober 5, 2011 at 7:32 PM

    What a great choice for the letter L.

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  10. Jo BryantOctober 6, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    I have often wondered what drugs he was on...
    Great post

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  11. HazelOctober 6, 2011 at 10:14 AM

    I read he was fond of absinthe, and I roamed Bangkok for the green liquid. Silly fan.

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