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Would Edgar Allan Poe have made a great astronaut, or the greatest astronaut?

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“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. In space.”

— Edgar Allan Poe (Except that last bit about space. That was us. But that’s what he probably meant, so just go with it.)

Edgar Allen Poe as an astronaut by Baltimore street artist TOVEN. (“EAP, Astronaut” is a bit of an ongoing theme of TOVEN’s.) Photographed by Zombie37 at Station North in Baltimore. Via Boing Boing

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