Cybil is diabolical, sitting and grinning like a cross between the Cheshire Cat and the Maw of Hell, as the deadly pendulum swooshes back and forth, lower and lower, nearer and nearer to doomed mousie….
Well, two things … the mouse is NOT strapped down in the path of that wicked sharp pendulum, … and Montressor did not own a mine — Fortunato was being bricked up in the cellar. TYVM for listening.
Swalb%515 over 10 years ago
Pretty scary, huh, kiddies?
Bilan over 10 years ago
Just wait until Cybil reads The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Cybil is diabolical, sitting and grinning like a cross between the Cheshire Cat and the Maw of Hell, as the deadly pendulum swooshes back and forth, lower and lower, nearer and nearer to doomed mousie….
pathfinder over 10 years ago
Well, two things … the mouse is NOT strapped down in the path of that wicked sharp pendulum, … and Montressor did not own a mine — Fortunato was being bricked up in the cellar. TYVM for listening.
dwandelt Premium Member over 10 years ago
Bad kitty! BAD Kitty!!
JR6019 over 10 years ago
Oh, that Poe little mouse (someone had to say it)!
skyriderwest over 10 years ago
No one expects the Spanish inquisition!
skyriderwest over 10 years ago
… and if I recall the story correctly, mice (or rats, in any event) actually helped the victim escape the pendulum.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 10 years ago
Stop that cat!!
cosman over 10 years ago
Vincent approves.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 10 years ago
Cats and Poe — a lethal combination!
WSR over 10 years ago
Cybil must be related to Vincent AND The Cheshire cat.