Monday, September 19, 2011

Random book fact of the week :)

This one is kinda creepy!

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parker. In 1884, in the real world, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth, whose name was Richard Parker.

See. Creepy, right?!

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Ewwwww...just ewwwwww. that is so nasty! I can't imagine. How did he know? That is creepy as hell girl. Edgar Allan Poe would be one of the famous people in history I would LOVE to go back and meet. Maybe he was Psychic and no one knew. Crazy stuff!!!

Christina Irelan said...

I know! I have always LOVED Poe but I never knew this! I was like "omg gross...wth? How is that possible? How did he know the precise name?"

LOL anyways, I would love to go back in time and meet him as well! He has always been one of my favorite demented souls.

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Melissas Eclectic Bookshelf said...

Is that for real? I need to go look that up. You know the Yann Martel book "Life of Pi"...I read this last year and it sounds as if it may be inspired by this story!

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Melissas Eclectic Bookshelf said...

PS. I am a new follower:)

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anaavu said...

omg. All I can say is omg...

Christina Irelan said...

@Melissa. I think it is for real...can't be 100% sure but the site I found it on had sources and that site had sources...I checked about 6 sources that all said the same thing so... LOL...pretty creepy huh?!

@Megan. I will check out your blog as well.

@anaavu. That's exactly what I thought when I read it the first time! hahaha

DMS said...

Crazy!