Yes, I vaguely remember that someone was talking about Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the American author whose amazing short stories we studied in English literature class in high schools, and it is true that his subject matter was often quite dark, all about disease and murder and always crowing about ravens in way that makes the birds seem a demonic manifestation. And also he died fairly young, at age 40, and with such a shortened career left behind mostly short stories and poems.
Even so, it does seem quite strange, your odd obsession with trying to exterminate that type of writer personality. While it is true that the writer personality is rare enough anyway, so there is not really a danger of overpopulating the earth with replicas of Poe, still is there not a place for the full variety of personalities, those more common as well as those rarer tones without whose voice the world might be a more impoverished and less interesting place, and without whose voices some things might get lost in the shuffle.
Thus, while ultimately the bad choices of Poe, who spent too much time in bad company and ran up gambling debts, may have led to the untimely end of his shortened and not very successful career, yet that might not necessarily be the fault of his personality type. His circumstances did not seem very favorable to success, even though he was a very talented writer and left behind some classics, that was not quite enough. Anyway, I do not understand why this sudden obsession with Poe.
Yes, who was that wicked witch who was crowing about Poe?
