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« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2013, 02:55:06 AM »
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« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2013, 01:59:30 PM »
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Those castles are so beautiful *.*
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« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2013, 05:34:09 PM »
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Indeed, they are so inspiring to me.

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« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2013, 01:02:37 AM »
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http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/ (Includes a castle or two.)

There's something undeniably beautiful and sad about abandoned places. Nature reclaiming what man built and in the back of his mind thought would last forever. I always find myself imagining who may have lived or worked there and wondering what drove them away, and feeling an urge to go look for clues and remnants of the lives lived in them.


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The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe, 1883

In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace—
Radiant palace—reared its head.
In the monarch Thought's dominion—
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair!

Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow,
(This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago),
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.

Wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two luminous windows, saw
Spirits moving musically,
To a lute's well-tunëd law,
Bound about a throne where, sitting
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.

And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.

But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate.
(Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate !)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.

And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh—but smile no more.
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From Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p
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« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2013, 09:06:32 AM »
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I love E. A. Poe.
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« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2013, 06:03:41 PM »
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23. Abandoned mill from 1866 in Sorrento, Italy

So that's the structure I saw down in the gorge when I went to Sorrento during my Mediterranean cruise. that scene looked so interesting that i thought it would make an awesome stage starting point for a Tomb Raider game.
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« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2013, 10:19:47 PM »
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I love E. A. Poe.

Yes it's one of my favorites. There's a version read by Christopher Lee on youtube but unfortunately the audio isn't the best. There's another poem by Poe ("The City in the Sea") with a similar theme that I've always thought must have influenced H.P. Lovecraft and writers that followed him in the same vein. Funny because a Lovecraft story ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") was turned into a Vincent Price movie in the 60s which took Poe's "The Haunted Palace" name (to tie-in with a series of "Poe" movies) even though the stories are unrelated. But I do see a lot of shades of Lovecraft's old ones and especially the sunken city of R'lyeh in Poe's "The City in the Sea"

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The City in the Sea - Edgar Allan Poe (1835?)

Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers and tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.

No rays from the holy Heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently—
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free—
Up domes—up spires—up kingly halls—
Up fanes—up Babylon-like walls—
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers—
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.

Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.

There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye—
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
Along that wilderness of glass—
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea—
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.

But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave—there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide—
As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy Heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow—
The hours are breathing faint and low—
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
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Gotta love the public domain, can get all of his poems here http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10031 and his short stories on the same site.

So that's the structure I saw down in the gorge when I went to Sorrento during my Mediterranean cruise. that scene looked so interesting that i thought it would make an awesome stage starting point for a Tomb Raider game.

Neat, it is a beautiful ruin.
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« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2013, 11:40:32 AM »
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I didn't know about that movie, it surprises me.
Already downloaded all Poe's works!  :)

So, we are talking about Poe... I'd like to ask if anyone saw the movie "The Raven". Because I loved that movie, and I see it has low reviews everywhere. Maybe I just fell in love with Poe references and that Victorian London look (although it is Baltimore, but it looks like Victorian London), but I don't think it is a bad movie as everyone says.
The dialogue is very well spoken, also.
And there are a couple of nice touches, like some phrases...

"I felt nothing but release when she died; but that feeling was soon to be replaced by this dark, grim melancholy that has been following all my life like a black dog..."
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« Reply #23 on: May 09, 2013, 08:17:18 PM »
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I didn't know about that movie, it surprises me.
Already downloaded all Poe's works!  :)

So, we are talking about Poe... I'd like to ask if anyone saw the movie "The Raven". Because I loved that movie, and I see it has low reviews everywhere. Maybe I just fell in love with Poe references and that Victorian London look (although it is Baltimore, but it looks like Victorian London), but I don't think it is a bad movie as everyone says.
The dialogue is very well spoken, also.
And there are a couple of nice touches, like some phrases...

"I felt nothing but release when she died; but that feeling was soon to be replaced by this dark, grim melancholy that has been following all my life like a black dog..."

For a second I thought you were talking about "The Raven" movie from the 1960s which was another one of those Vincent Price/Roger Corman "Poe inspired" movies. (I saw it but years and years ago, it was a comedy-horror and the plot involved dueling wizards for some reason.) I haven't seen the recent one but I did hear a lot of bad things, so you do recommend it? I love me some gothic Victorian stories.

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« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2013, 12:14:17 AM »
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I don't know if to recommend it because I have very special and specific tastes.
I loved the Poe references, poetic well written dialogue, tragedy and Victorian setting.
But I realize many people dislike it.
I usually go around telling people around me about things I like, but sometimes I seem to be the only one to like it. I also heard bad things, but then I saw it and loved it.
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« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2013, 08:22:58 AM »
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Hey! I know Poe! :D
I've read "The Raven" once... It messes with your head... x|

 

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