You're not arguing that Elizabeth isn't abusing Paige. You're just arguing that it's justifiable.

I was in college at the University of Utah in January 1999, and saw it at a midnight Sundance showing at the Tower Theater in Salt Lake. The Tower seats maybe a hundred and fifty, is probably fifty years old, and has a cruddy balcony. It's the best place possible to see something like this, and that screening was…

With good reason.

Yeah, I totally get that: Poe as a Confederate is a big, slow, pitch up the middle. Too much easy melancholy and gothic gravestones and willow trees. Poe as a Unionist is against type and thus more interesting.

I hate to be a parade-rainer. Sorry, friends.