I rarely used CN, but I read fast - and unless a book is pointless, I rarely forget it. I still remember reading David and the Phoenix in 4th grade 9ca.'56) (5 or 6 seats back in my row, back to windows). But then, I learned about convection currents in 5th grade (seat by windows, windows to right six back. Also the year I visited the State Museum (with a Mummy +) on field trip, learned what you can do interesting with a D-cell and a stretched out spring from a ball point pen (Branded!!) and clay pigeons (great grenades for playing War!). That year I went heavy on SF reading. Non-Dellian robots.
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Same age - but for me, most books do not change on re-reading though I may get more from them. I have reread and enjoyed books I read when under ten and still could find pleasure in them. Adult level books the same.
Nothing but a hearty well done!!! Well Done!!!!!
The best Poe has the Harry Clarke illustrations. He has it cold!! and Dead!!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take they stoop from off my door!
The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed . . . not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven, and all things in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken, and observe how how calmly, how healthily, I can tell you the whole story.
I went through a Poe phase in high school.
