Comments on: On Tarns http://blog.tarn.org Trying to reconcile the unreconcileable Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Dennis McDonald http://blog.tarn.org/on-tarns/#comment-70 Dennis McDonald Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:19:17 +0000 http://innominate.wordpress.com/?page_id=36#comment-70 The word "tarn" is also used several time in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of User," for example: "Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn." The word “tarn” is also used several time in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of User,” for example:

“Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.”

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