http://www.metafilter.com/tags/theraven Posts tagged with 'theraven' at MetaFilter. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:02:41 -0800 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:02:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74097/Quoth%2Dthe%2Draven%2DHalloa%2Dold%2Dgirl <i>"On the clock striking twelve he appeared slightly agitated, but he soon recovered, walked twice or thrice along the coach house, stopped to bark, staggered, exclaimed 'Halloa old girl!' (his favorite expression) and died... The children seem rather glad of it. He bit their ankles, but that was play..."</i> So wrote Charles Dickens, describing the death of his pet raven "Grip," in a letter to a friend. <a href="http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=361">Grip has an interesting legacy</a>. Having served as an eponymous character in Dickens' <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Rudge">Barnaby Rudge</a></i> <small>[full <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54br/">text</a>]</small> and subsequently inspiring Edgar Allan Poe's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven">The Raven</a></i> <small>[full <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html">text</a>]</small>, Grip has the distinction of being named a <a href="http://www.folusa.org/outreach/literary-landmarks.php">literary landmark</a>. His <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/oddities/grip.htm">taxidermied body </a>is on display in the Rare Book Department at the Philadelphia Free Library. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74097 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:02:41 -0800 barnabyrudge dickens grip literarylandmark literature pet philadelphia poe raven theraven amyms