[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Jack Kerouac Edition

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born 10/21/1772)

A Young Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Young Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”-Jack Kerouac (died 10/21/1969)

Naval Reserve Enlistment Photo of Jack Kerouac, 1943

Naval Reserve Enlistment Photo of Jack Kerouac, 1943

 

Counting Down to Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, Day 11: The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart by Harry Clarke, circa 1919

The Tell-Tale Heart by Harry Clarke. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, 1919.

“True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”-The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe