Eureka!!!
4 13 Ides of April
By Ladnar Resik
In 1826 at the University of Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe etched this stanza in his dorm room windowpane glass.
O Thou timid one, let not thy
Form rest in slumber within these
Unhallowed walls,
For herein lies
The ghost of an awful crime.
In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe wrote, “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
What secrets did Edgar Allan Poe take with him to his grave, or did he hide them in a book that he wrote just before his death for us to find?
Eureka
Help in deciphering “Eureka”, join my blog and let’s work together to solve this mystery. Let’s read this book the way Poe intended it to be read. Poe once said he would one day be the most famous person to have ever lived on earth, but it would not be for 1000 years after he is gone. After Eureka was published, he wrote “I have no desire to live since I have done Eureka, I could accomplish nothing more.” He told a friend that “he believed his contemporary generation was unable to understand it but that it would be appreciated, if ever, two thousand years later.”
Poe states in the Eureka’s introduction “What I here propound is true: -- therefore it cannot die: or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to the Life Everlasting.” Then he finishes the introduction by saying “Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.”
Poe also wrote in Eureka (paraphrasing Kepler), “ I care not whether my work be read now or by posterity. I can afford to wait a century for readers when God himself has waited six thousand years for an observer. I triumph. I have stolen the golden secret of the Egyptians. I will indulge my sacred fury.”
Edgar Allan Poe “presents his Eureka as an offering to those who feel rather than those who think – to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as the only realities. I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true.”
Edgar Allan Poe short story “The conversations of Eiros and Charmion” the two men talk about the end of the world that was hit by a comet. In the short story the characters talked about the scientists saying that not to worry, that it will not harm us and will miss hitting Earth. The scientists were wrong, or they did not want to tell them the truth.
Edgar Allan Poe once said, “All religion, my friend, is simply out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
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These quotes help inspired me to write the novel “413 Ides of April”.
Lord Bryon once said “The best prophet of the future is the past”
George Orwell’s quotes
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
In the book “413 Ides of April” the main character dreams about events that occurred on April 13th, which the novel opens with the same line George Orwell used to open his “1984.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
George Orwell (Opening line in “1984”)
Eureka!!! 4 13 Ides of April Is a historical science fiction novel that shows we are presently living in an altered time dimension, in which a group of mercenaries from our pre-existing future has traveled back in time to our past to alter events in the form of a coup in order to make our future a more desirable one, that regains our individual rights and freedoms
Check out some of Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes below. The ones in bold you may find have a connection with the Book “413 Ides of April”. Read the synopsis along with the quotes in bold.
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.”
“The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong).”
“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
1. “Art is to look at not to criticize.”
2. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
3. “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.”
4. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
5. “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
6. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
7. “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
8. “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
9. “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
10. “Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”
11. “All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.”
12. “Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.”
13. “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”
14. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
15. “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
16. “I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”
17. “When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
18. “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
19. “The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”
20. “Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.”
21. “Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
22. “I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, 'a long poem,' is simply a flat contradiction in terms.”
23. “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
24. “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
25. “And haven't I told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses.”
26. “Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”
27. “If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
28. “A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
29. “I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but He quenched it in misery.”
30. “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
31. “For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.”
32. “The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong).”
33. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
34. “Lord help my poor soul.”
35. “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
36. “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
37. “Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
38. “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”
39. “The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.”
40. “Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.”
41. “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”
42. “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
43. “But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
44. “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
45. “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
46. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
47. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
48. “Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.”
49. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
50. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
51. “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
52. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
53. “Leave my loneliness unbroken”
54. “Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
55. “Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the altar, and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however, shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy."
56. "It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.”
57. “Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.”
58. “His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.”
59. “Love like mine can never be gotten over.”
60. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
61. “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
62. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
63. “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
64. “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
65. “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
66. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
67. “Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”
68. “In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.”
69. “I have no words — alas! — to tell. The loveliness of loving well!”
70. “I saw no heaven — but in her eyes.”
71. “Reaching out to her is like drinking from a memory.”
72. “The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”
73. “These were the days when my heart was volcanic.”
74. “That she loved me I should not have doubted; and I might have been easily aware that, in a bosom such as hers, love would have regained no ordinary passion."
75. “But in death only was I fully impressed with the strength of her affection.”
75 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Life, Love and Writing (msn.com)
