This is just to give a heads-up that I've enabled comments on this blog, in the unlikely event that anyone wishes to communicate with me.
The house policy is simple: No spam, no trolls, no jerks. Which probably means that my first action as site moderator will have to be to block myself.
Samuel S. Osgood Portrait of Poe, c.1845
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