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[alex_pope]

I'll just ask:

Is there some reason that almost everyone, upon meeting me, sees fit to threaten me with immediate or future bodily harm?

Is there?

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[bipoelar]

As I recall, I offered lockpicking tools and a pastry...

My cooking isn't that abysmal.

[alex_pope]

I was more referring to people who threaten to cut my hands off.

Which you never did, and for which I thank you profusely. I'm sure your cooking isn't fatal in the least.

[bipoelar]

I could threaten something dire if it would make you feel more at home...

[alex_pope]

It's really fine, but kind of you to offer. Have you considered writing for the paper?

[bipoelar]

I hadn't, actually. Er, is it the sort of thing I ought to do?

[alex_pope]

I think you should, but the choice is entirely yours.

So, Poe. Tell me about yourself. And how you know Lovecraft. And lived. All I really know is that your cigarettes are Rather Pungent, and that you're apparently decent.

[bipoelar]

Decent? I'm dressed, at least...

I've the feeling I'm being interviewed.

[alex_pope]

Decently-mannered? Although it is good to know you are dressed.

A bit of an interview, yes.

[bipoelar]

Ah. Well, then, something of answers:

I lived in Providence as a legal ward of my uncle. Technically, I still ought to be in Providence with him, but I'm not very good at sitting still.

Living there is how I know Howard. We met in prison at the tender age of four and a half and became friends during our clandestine plans at escape. There was a bottle nipple and a small piece of quite stale crumb-cake involved, as I recall, in the actual implementation of those plans.

The crows were purely incidental.

Are my cigarettes really that bad?

[alex_pope]

That's fascinating. You should write for the paper. Your cigarettes choke me. But to each his own.

[bipoelar]

What would I write?

[alex_pope]

Something about how to escape from prison at the age of four? We'll all need some ideas, soon. And by "all", I probably mean "me". Unless I die at Lovecraft's.

[bipoelar]

And people would read that? I- wow.

You won't die at Lovecraft's. I can't recall you insulting him anytime recently so you ought to be perfectly safe.

Er, 'safe' is, of course, a relative term...

[alex_pope]

I'd annotate it.

[bipoelar]

Ah, the author's archnemesis: the Editor.

But I'm considering it. I've done some editing work here and there, and written small bits and pieces for publications in Providence and thereabouts.

Hmm.