InterActiveNovels & Philosophical Letters: The Masque Of The Red Death By: Edgar Allan Poe

 

After having read "The Masque Of The Red Death" written by one of my favorite writers, the great Edgar Allan Poe. I close the book and open the app for an immersive literary experience, at the castellated abbey.

Here we are, I was in the middle of an immense room with the fireplace turned on completely alone, curious to visit the seventh room  with the ebony clock and bleeding walls.

I was also trilled to met the man who impersonate "The Red Death"

I looked at myself in the mirror. My noble appearance was really funny. I thought I was a copy of Falstaff, a great lover of fine wine and food.

Being immortal I decided to test my free will, my mentor was the Prince Prospero and his vain attempts to defeat death. I believed to be  the only one to be able to feel the pleasure of defeating death. 

Then I looked at the ebony clock and thought deeply on the meaning of time.

I started to speak to Prince Prospero seated comfortably on a wooden chair. I was smoking a pipe, the scent of the tobacco had intoxicated Prince Prospero, he seemed drugged and ready to reveal anything to me since his inhibitions had vanished.

I swear it wasn't marijuana.

We started to speak about the weather and then his purpose in life.

He said to me that he has got a sort of supernatural intelligence. He assured me that he was on the right path to become immortal. I expressed my congratulations vividly, and then I asked him what he would do.

He candidly told me that he wants to have all the wealth in the world and then squander it satisfying every desire. I found his ideal a bit cloying, but he is not like me.

The fire was now as dead as my tobacco. I turned to him and asked to see the black room to see the large ebony clock. The prince looked at me with contempt and told me to leave.

On the way to my blue room, I was afraid of catching fire, as sparks were flying from the enormous braziers; wearing a cheap suit, I could easily catch fire.

I raised my head and saw a tall figure, it was clear that he was the red death. I was so terrorised that I told to him a gag

"I read that you're the red death" he smiled at me and asked why I wanted to visit the ebony clock.

I told him to think and then discuss the meaning of time and life.

He opened the door of the black room with his thoughts, we stood for about ten minutes and then he invited me to think.

Our argument was about immortality and its consequences.

His purpose was to spread death toward the people that don't accept the death. Everyone has a divine design, and humanity must accept it.

Then he looked at me and said that, being immortal, I was condemned to live inside the abbey forever.

I looked around, we were completely enveloped by dark, it was impossible to me to do a step, inside the room there were sinister sounds and a frozen wind, I didn't have idea how to lit a candle nor where to find, the ebony clock was silent a very terrifying situation, but I smelled the blood.

He told me to dig deep on the meaning of life, of an immortal, I waited a few minutes and then I said:

"Without the light I am condemned to be enveloped by the darkness for eternity, this is not my philosophy of life."

He smiled at me, and then I saw the light.