遇到這種有霧的天氣，總是讓我想起李商隱＜燕台四首．夏＞的這句詩。
很美很美的意境。
不過今天的霧的連想比較神秘驚悚一點。
驚悚？
是的，今天又是Edgar Allan Poe的生日，也就是Poe Toaster要出現的日子。記得去年今日，也是白茫茫的一片大霧.........
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趕在臭小子開學之前，我們全家安排了一次東岸之旅，住宿地點是巴卡拉民宿，巴卡拉，其實是 南竹湖的阿美族名Parkara'ac 。Parkara'ac的意思是白螃蟹，因為部落從前有許多白螃蟹，但不知多少年前早已消失。我記得太巴塱也有白螃蟹的傳說，但是同是阿美族語，pa...
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粟仔收煞，稻草嘛會使提來利用。作穡人ka割落來个稻草縛做一束一束，叫做摠草。摠好个草會使提去kham竹跤（熱天保持土跤个水分，寒天保溫），嘛有人提去拍草索仔。我哪是看著田底有摠草，就放心啊。尚驚个就是無欲閣利用，乾脆給放火燒田。我滯佇風尾，見擺人leh燒稻草，我个目睭、鼻仔做一下...
連結裡的本尊照片連結已經消失在霧中了...
回覆刪除我有找到一張手繪的神祕版寫真喔...:D
http://www.crowetoons.com/toons/11904poetoaster.jpg
第一次知道這個故事
回覆刪除但是看到Edgar Allan Poe這個名字
腦中直接想說... 雪倫把米國文學也都還給老師了啦! =_=
天氣還真準啊！Poe Toaster 今年能夠不被打擾地完成儀式嗎？
回覆刪除期待進一步的報導。
唉！我也是喜歡看八卦新聞的讀者啊。
阿～～～今天也是我女兒生日ㄝ.
回覆刪除哇，主人出差在外奔波了一天，客人幫我查起了資料，真好！
回覆刪除alhorn找到的圖真有意思，似乎是故意把poe toaster畫成raven的樣子（也就是愛倫坡的作品的名字）。
雪倫，judie請靜待下一步報導。
柏魚娘終於出聲了，有失遠迎，還請恕罪。不知道妳女兒的文采是不是也很好呢？有沒有特別喜歡神秘驚悚故事呢？
今天跑了半個台灣，到處陰雨，晚上也還有霧。
報導出來了。
回覆刪除還好，今年的致敬儀式平安落幕。
January 19, 2007
Mystery Visitor Appears at Poe's Grave
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:32 a.m. ET
BALTIMORE (AP) -- For the 58th straight year, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe's grave Friday, and he was watched by more onlookers than ever, a faithful viewer said.
Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, said 55 people braved a chilly morning to glimpse the annual ritual of the mysterious visitor known as the Poe toaster.
''If I were the Poe toaster, and I saw and heard that crowd, I wouldn't show up,'' Jerome said before the ceremony.
As in years past, the visitor placed a half-empty bottle of cognac and three red roses at the grave on Poe's birthday, Jerome said.
Once it realized who he was, the crowd rushed to one of the cemetery's entrances to get a glimpse, and the toaster slipped out another way, Jerome said.
He said this year's crowd was large but well behaved, unlike last year when watchers tried to interfere with the tribute.
Jerome said he would no longer describe the visitor or what he was wearing because of last year's unruly spectators.
One onlooker Friday dressed up to look like the Poe toaster had in a previous year, said Jerome, who has seen the mystery visitor every Jan. 19 since 1976.
Starting in 1949, a frail figure made the visit to Poe's grave. In 1993, the original visitor left a cryptic note saying, ''The torch will be passed.'' A later note said the man, who apparently died in 1998, had handed the tradition on to his sons.
Poe, who wrote poems and horror stories such as ''The Raven'' and ''The Telltale Heart,'' was born in Boston and raised in Richmond, Va. He died Oct. 7, 1849 in Baltimore at the age of 40 after collapsing in a tavern.
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On the Net:
Poe House and Museum: http://www.eapoe.org/