Wikipedia's "Gioachino", aka "Yanni the greek".....
....following the conversation quoted below with "Midnightdreary", their "Poe expert", stopped trying to edit relevant Wiki-article on Al Aaraaf.
Enjoy:
Re my "Al Aarraf" contribution!
Did you remove it from the "current" version of the article and if so, why?
Nevertheless, you'd propably need do something about "it" sooner or later!
Cheers! User:Gioachino 06:47,(talk) 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Your answer at my "talk" page-thanks-does not really address the issue: "It" is bigger than anything written on Poe so far, my "bad english" did not prevent me from solving his mystery, the ball is in your park now, I am done with Edgar, it's Henry Poe's turn next: Does the name "George Washington Cass" sound familiar to you btw?
Cheers again!
Gioachino (talk) 19:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I have no idea what you are trying to say. --Midnightdreary (talk) 13:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
You "have no idea" because your Edgar's father was David Poe jr, mine's David Poe sr, your's foster father was a John Allan, mine's John AllEn (of Allenwood, Tennessee, friend of Andrew Jackson, a fillibusterer and shrewed businessman as well). As for "William henry Leonard Poe": They invented him jointly, in 1827, Edgar Allen and William Townshend Washington (nephew of the late president) who misbehaved and fell seriously ill while in Greece, 1823-24, returned to the States, visited John Allen summer 1825 to obtain a new "identity". Edgar replaced him returning to Greece as his brother George , spring 1827 and, among others, "fixed" William's death. That's how their early publication efforts materialised (by WHLP) and that's why "cadet Williams" T.Washington, in Paris 1822, "died" as William Townsend Washington April 1827 in Napoli, Campagna, Italy (US sources) or as George Townsend Washington, philhellene, in Napoli di Morea, Greece (greek and US sources).
Re "Cass": Secretary Lewis Cass wrote a letter to David Douglas at West Point June 1827 recommending his nephew, son of his sister, yet named George Washington "Cass". Secretary L.Cass and professor D.Douglas are Edgar's two aquaintances NOT spoken about by "Poe scholars" repeating the same falsitudes over and over. G.W.Cass outlived Edgar but Edgar Allen Poe may have had his reasons to dissappear following the death of Tampico captain John Allen. (Also of interest a George Washington Poe, Edgar's penpal and the Raven's-Sam Houston-lieutenant!)
Gioachino (talk) 15:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
This is still mostly incoherent to me. What does this have to do with "Al Aaraaf". This sounds like a conspiracy theory that there was an "Edgar Allan Poe" and an "Edgar Allen Poe" with very similarly-named foster-fathers. I'm responding with a more relevant response on your talk page. --Midnightdreary (talk) 23:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
"Secrecy shall knowledge be in the environs of heaven" huh? No, there was just one Edgar Allen Poe who declared his part in a conspiracy in his "Al Aaraaf". His con-spirator, John Allen was "The Raven's" fatherinlaw. Midnightdreary rimes with weak and weary and responds in this fashion too! Cheers! Gioachino (talk) 04:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
"Onethousandandone" tale!
Instead of feeling dissapointed by Wikipedia's rejection of his "Al Aaraaf contribution", a grain of salt, yourstruly was instead amused by their red tape choice. He also felt relieved for he had neither the intention nor the time to undertake editing current ignorance, neither had he the strength to prevent the skies from falling on the deaf and dumb reality he was trying to escape from, he just wanted to rest and be forgotten.
In such a state of oblivious bliss, he only wished a better end be found for his story other than his previous wiki-post herein.
So Melchior decided, just and only then, to appear, bringing tale "onethousandandone"!.
That's how it happened:
In parallel to his melee with Wiki-experts, yourstruly was surfing the web for "something"-he forgets what-that led him to "a" Grimm who was Catherine II's intimate friend, guest and art advisor. He quickly realised this Grimm had everything BUT the name in common with his, still cloudy, main hero also known as "The Wonderman"
He had found Saint Germain's missing half *(see footnote) and, still mistaking "Melchior" for a mythwriter, he edited his just established "Gioachino" Wiki-userpage, adding his find but mislabeling "Grimm" as a mythwriter, reediting immediately after, "no harm done" he thought, as the impact, the significance, of his last find was progressively weighing him down!
Excited nevertheless, he hurried posting a relative email to the french "enlightment" site-who had the guts to publish his "Saint Germain=Gioachino Cocchi" comment in the past- mixing up "Rousseau" with "Grimm", a mistake of minor importance , an excusable mistake perhaps that went unnoticed by the kind keepers who indeed published this new message**(see footnote) as well, but....
....in the meantime his find, Saint Germain's last punch, had him hurting flat on the ground, after taking its time to land, with such precision and weight, on the tip of his long nose.
He tried applying the "at least I have it all on record" painkiller to recover from his injuries, his preceeding and consequent blunders, regoogled then for "Melchior Grimm" and came across an "international study center of the 18th century" in France who had decided, thirty years ago, to "rediscover" Melchior Grimm and have, today, a team of some 17 "scholars" looking through Melchior's fameuse Correspondance littéraire.
He truly was stung back to reality reading they had also decided to limit their search to the specific period of their "Monsieur Grimm" they had control of, or so they thought when publishing their specific decision online:
...décidé de se limiter, dans un premier temps, à ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler la «période Grimm», celle qui va de mai 1753 à fin février 1773.
Whistling his old "Oh, Fiddlesticks" (to the tune of Oh Tannenbaum), he stood back up on his feet, thanked Saint Germain kindly for the punchy message he finally received, picked up his own toy fiddle and started walking forward, a carefull step at a time.
Marking the beginning of "Friedrich Melchior Grimm revisited" THIS is....
...........THE END OF THE POE ANNOUNCEMENT!
* Rousseau's employer "Dupin de Franceuil" (George Sand's grandfather) and host "Bellegarde" (owner of La Chevrette") are two other alias used by Saint Germain (with Rousseau playing along,).A relative footnote has been added on post 109 herein.
** see http://www.terresdecrivains.com/ROUSSEAU
