Postcard #11 (in a lift at work) ... "Dear Mink, I'm sure I've never told you that my favourite poem is Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven.' It has such pace, such rhythm, such delicious darkness. I taught it once to a group of children I was counseling in an American summer camp, and we sat around a campfire at night telling ghost stories and reciting The Raven... Wonderful memories! Charlie"