genuinely wheezing laughing at this description of dicken’s awful pet with lead poisoning

eek-a-tron:

annabellioncourt:

beesmygod:

beesmygod:

genuinely wheezing laughing at this description of dicken’s awful pet with lead poisoning

important thing i forgot to mention: i looked this up bc adam read a thing about how dicken’s pet was an inspiration for poe’s “the raven” and we were like “well thats not true” but now that ive looked it up, i believe it

Yep! Dickens cited Grip as inspiration for the talking raven in his novel Barnaby Rudge, and Poe was one of its earliest critics (literary cr...