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I’m Hilko, a Communications and Social Psychology student in Amsterdam
We are Jerome, Chris, and Jack, contributors of this blog
About us
As time passes, we will share our life, our opinions, our thoughts and our adventures with you. It might not all be strictly factual, but it’s all true
I also do web design and web hosting. Ironically, I don't have a site for that yet.
Nevertheless, don't hesitate to contact me if you need a website, or if you want to see my portfolio.
Contact: me@hilkoblok.com
Check Hilko's old blog for all his ramblings between 2006 and november 2009
![] A fascinating look at the life of Edgar Allan Poe “My whole existence has been the merest Romance,” Poe wrote, the year before his death, “in the sense of the most utter unworldliness.” This is Byronic bunk. Poe’s life was tragic, but he was about as unworldly as a bale of cotton. Poe’s world was Andrew Jackson’s America, a world of banking collapse, financial panic, and grinding depression that had a particularly devastating effect on the publishing industry, where Poe sought a perch. His biography really is a series of unfortunate events. […] Poe Invented the detective story! If Dupin sounds uncannily familiar, that’s because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, like every other author of detective fiction, not to mention the creators of a thousand TV crime shows, is incalculably in Poe’s debt. “The children of Poe” is what Stephen King calls the members of his guild, and with good reason. But horror stories predate Poe, and have many other sources. Not so the literary sleuth. All detective stories and police procedurals begin with the intellectually imperious C. Auguste Dupin: methodical, eccentric, calculating—and insulting. We, mere readers, are so many Watsons, Hastingses, and Goodwins. Poe is the only Holmes.
