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Old 10-19-2016, 01:37 PM   #2589
GtrsRGr8
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Hmmmm . . . . it seems like the author got more than a little bit of inspiration from an Edgar Allan Poe story, "The Raven:"
1. Because of the prominence in the Poe story about a raven.
2. The tapping on the door is very familiar. It's because Poe had at least one statement about a raven "tapping on his chamber door," or something to that effect. And, also, he talks about the same bird "rapping, rapping," if memory serves me correctly.

Of course, the author can do anything that he wants to with Poe's short story. I think that it's out of copyright now.
I think that I've got some of the details above incorrect. Anyway, here's one place on the Web where you can read the story, story.

Okay, go ahead and skewer me now.
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