The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Edgar Allan Poe
- Two
- people,
- who
- have
- been
- renamed
- Eiros
- and
- Charmion
- after
- death,
- discuss
- the
- manner
- in
- which
- the
- world
- ended.
- Eiros,
- who
- died
- in
- the
- apocalypse,
- explains
- the
- circumstances
- to
- Charmion,
- who
- died
- ten
- years
- previously.
- A
- new
- comet
- is
- detected
- in
- the
- Solar
- System,
- and
- as
- it
- approaches
- the
- Earth,
- people
- experience
- in
- turn
- exhilaration,
- then
- pain
- and
- delirium.
- The
- cause
- is
- discovered
- to
- be
- the
- loss
- of
- nitrogen
- from
- the
- atmosphere,
- leaving
- pure
- oxygen,
- which
- finally
- bursts
- into
- flame
- when
- the
- comet
- nucleus hits.
