Saturday, January 23, 2010

TALES FROM THE CRAPPER

Edgar Allan Poe


In 1838 the American author Edgar Allan Poe wrote one of his most famous tales The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a story about three men adrift in a boat, who survived by killing and eating their companion, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, thirty-five years after Poe's death, a yacht called the Mignonette sank in a storm en route to Australia from England. Four of the crew put to sea in an open boat, and three were rescued twenty-four days later. They had survived by killing and eating the fourth member, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. They eventually returned home to a heroes' welcome and received only six months' imprisonment.




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