u"All the documents I have read led me to the
conviction that
for Poe the United
States was nothing more than a vast prison
which he traversed
with the feverish agitation of a being
made to breathe a
sweeter air
u — nothing more than a great gas lighted nightmare —
u and that his inner,
spiritual life, as a poet or even as a drunkard,
was nothing but a
perpetual effort to escape the influence of this unfriendly atmosphere."
uGas light made
from coal contained 5 % to 50 % Carbon Monoxide
uCO exposure
limits today= 0.0009 % outdoors, 0.005% occupational
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