3 Edgars

As you can see it's a series of pictures of Edgar Allan Poe, but something funny's going on--that's his regular portrait on the left, but the pictures in the middle and to the right are altered:

The middle face is made up of two right sides pasted together and the far right face is made up of two left sides pasted together. Weird, eh? They're both recognizable as Poe, of course, but--and here my pop-culture saturated brain will steer me into a Star Trek reference--they are like the two Kirks in that one episode where he gets split into two beings by (if I remember correctly) a glitch in the transporter. You know, aggressive, but self-confident Kirk v. passive, self-critical Kirk? Middle Poe is fierce, a force to be reckoned with, and a little scary. Far-right Poe is pathetic, maudlin, and full of self-doubt. None of this really means anything, but it fits neatly into the kind of pop-psychological silliness that is often foisted upon poor Edgar.

Meh...