#arthur gordon pym

[germposting]

ok so i know that a lot of people heard verna tell madeline and roderick that their family would never face legal ramifications for their crimes as part of their deal and then just threw out pym’s involvement as a throw away character protected only by a supernatural shield. they just went “oh ok so he was only a ‘good lawyer’ because they were divinely shielded from consequences so he wasn’t really worth shit” or whatever but how has nobody come to the very possible conclusion that arthur pym IS the divine protection??

verna could have sent him to the ushers *as* the protection from the law. because hes worth six or seven lawyers and he knows how to get shit done. she admits to having admired him for a long while. i think hes the first human she meets when she decides to go to earth to watch the humans? roderick himself tells this to auguste dupin when they recount arthurs ability to make shit disappear and find people who can’t be found.

arthur gordon pym was the divine intervention that protected the ushers for all those decades. he was aided by verna and benefited from his proximity to the family, sure, but his success (lets call it what it is, he succeeded) shouldn’t be written off as something that just “happened” and he took the credit for. he is the credit. he is the protection. he willingly goes to jail and confesses his crimes and refuses vernas offer to make a deal after it becomes clear the ushers are doomed, its his choice. its not the shield being lifted and unable to protect without the ushers around, its pym not having anyone to protect anymore. he says it himself, he doesn’t have any collateral. why not repent at that point?

anyway all this to say i love arthur pym and i dont think his character should be diminished at all by the revelation of the usher twins deal with the raven. also mark hamill crushed it

[emptyjunior]

Okay we keep talking about "characters of all time" but Arthur Gordon Pym truly is THE character. He's an old man. He's the Pym reaper. He lies to cops. He owns the cops. He wears his funny little hat and funny little gloves. He is the most litigious, most untouchable, most ruthless lawyer in the corporate world. If you kill someone and call him to hide the body for you, that's TOO boring for him. He's probably a cannibal. He met death and she kneeled on the ground and held his hand and said he was a pleasure to know. He got outfoxed by a teenage girl. He travelled around the world in a glorious, terrible expedition and at the edge of the North Pole he brushed with forces supernatural in the shining lights. He writes a hell of a prenup.

He's just so, SO

[the-kestrels-feather]

Something about Arthur "just killed a woman and duct taped her body into a tarp" Gordon Pym having to take a hit off his inhaler after doing Verna in is hilarious to me

[the-golden-vanity]

Ahoy, shipmates!

Over the course of several delayed flights this weekend, I devoured a paperback copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I found it enjoyable, if not a Great Classic Work Of Literature.

My question to you now is, there's a chapter in the middle of the book where our castaway hero encounters a plague ship. It moves erratically through the water before them, with what appears to be a smiling, nodding sailor at the rail, acknowledging Arthur and his fellow castaways.

However, as the ship approaches, the stench of death washes over our hero and his companions, and as it passes under their stern, they can see that all aboard the ship are dead of some terrible, unknown disease, and that the smile and nod they perceived were the rictus of death and the movement of a seagull feasting on the dead sailor's flesh.

This is my first time reading this book, and yet there's something viscerally, intensely familiar about this imagery. I feel like I've read this somewhere else before. Perhaps it was in a graphic novel, because my mental image of this scene appears in a sort of comic-book style.

Does anyone have any ideas where I might have encountered this before? Any help would be appreciated.

@clove-pinks @benjhawkins @ltwilliammowett @saranilssonbooks

[freuleinanna]

Death Delight

Kiss Death with kindness in the end And when she parts, You part as friends

...and when you meet her at the door, Love her. For every hour, her work Continues till her heart's all sore With endless grief, with nevermore, So share with her this final light And kiss my dear Death Delight with kindness...

[yepthatsacowalright]

Mark Hamill as Arthur Pym looked like he'd be fun to draw, and I wanted to challenge myself to try to draw a portrait digitally (as opposed to traditional paper/pencil), so here we are.

[dynamobooks]

Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

[fipindustries]

ok, i will admit, the sudden way arthur gordon pym ends is actually incredibly striking and a bit chill inducing, even to this day. it stays with you. is the most effective cut to black ive seen in fiction, this is the type of story i would really love to see adapted into a movie.

no denoument, no conclussion, no ending, just the final shot.

[coffinflop]

edgar allan poe: ok i’m going to write my first novel, it is a ~kooky nautical adventure~

also edgar allan poe: [ends up writing a super gory proto-lovecraftian bildungsroman about a cringe-fail frat boy with incredible healing powers]

[noovorous]

Reading The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe:

1- Introduction 2- A bit claustrophobic, I suppose? 3- Well, things just got interesting 4- Now it's just sad 5- Things are getting interesting again! 6- Wow, this is a bit racist... 7- Wow, this is SUPER RACIST 8- Now things are getting so, SO much more interesting 9- NO! Master Poe, respectfully GET BACK AND WRITE!!! What do you mean it ends here? The last sentences of the actual journey and UGHH!!!

[daincrediblegg]

oh yeah shoutout to one of the students in my class today who pointed out it was edgar allan poe's birthday which started an impromptu 52 man happy birthday chorus for him. legendary behavior.

[lauriemarch]

this is possibly my greatest joke of all time

(The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)

[booty-uprooter]

my favorite part of the narrative of a Gordon pym thus far is when our illustrious hero remembers where he put an axe immediately after they finish eating the fourth member of their merry band, and then they use it to start getting all the food from the storehouse they could've eaten instead of their buddy if Arthur had remembered where he'd put that damn axe or dirk peters had asked Arthur if he remembered where he'd put that damn axe just like a week earlier

[sunsetrose20]

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality

Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

[mltmdgci]

Deliler Teknesi Dergisi-Sayı:94

Deliler Teknesi Dergisi’nin Temmuz – Ağustos sayısında Poe’nun Nantucketli Arthur Gordon Pym’in Öyküsü’ne dair yazdım. Yazıyla uğraşırken en çok ilginç bulduğum ve öğretici bir yanı da şu olmuştu. Poe’nun, Oyuk Dünya İnanışı’nı denizcilik üzerinden öyküye yedirmiş olmasıydı. Böyle bir inanışı değil de içerisinde geçen bazı kavramları önceden duymuştum. Bu dosya konusu beni tam anlamıyla gerçekten…

[flanaganfilm]

Hi Mike! Curious to know if you have any suggestions of Poe stories we should read before Usher comes out (aside from the obvious, of course)?

Oh boy, let's see... The Tell Tale Heart The Raven The Cask of Amontillado The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat Tamerlane The Premature Burial Lenore Morella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket William Wilson The City in the Sea The Pit and the Pendulum Spirits of the Dead ... this series is pretty wild ;)