Animated Edgar Allan Poe Reading "The Raven"

This animated version of Edgar Allan Poe reading his immortal work, "The Raven," has wracked up quite a few hits on Youtube since being added late last month. There's something disquieting, but amazing about seeing a man of the pre-camera age reciting one of his most renowned works. The technology in of itself is good as well. Aside from some trippy wavering, it looks like a reel out of the '20s or '30s--the closest we shall ever get to an authentic reading by Poe.

The endlessly burgeoning abilities of technology to bring the dead back to life bring the promise of further applications and refinements. Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft will join Poe one day, find ing himself completely re-animated in artificial form, along with other greats of the literary field.



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