When I was in High School and Edgar Allan Poe impersonator stopped by our school for a performance. Now THAT is scary: being a middle-aged man impersonating Edgar Allan Poe for a bunch of postmodern brats. He was, of course, heckled, but he didn't let it get to him. He was probably used to it. And I thought I was a masochistic performer!

At the end of his routine he warned all the kids in the auditorium to stay far away from drugs. Edgar Allan Poe was a drug addict and he ruined (and possibly ended) his life by taking it too far with drugs and alcohol.

But at the same time isn't there a reason why Edgar Allan Poe was a haunted romantic genius and this guy was just an impersonator? Doesn't it have to do with the fact that Edgar Allan Poe was more the kind of personality that would seek drugs?

Not that I'm advocating drugs. I'm extremely cautious in regard to drugs myself (drugs are like guns and technology, they can be for good or evil depending on how they are used) but doesn't it say something about Edgar Allan Poe's spirit as opposed to his?