Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed nothing less than a(n) (i) ________ outcome, and those who (ii) ________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life of tragedy was (iii) ________ .

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. dire	D. dispute	G. all but inevitable
B. unforeseen	E. hold fast to	H. clearly unexpected
C. auspicious	F. squelch	I. hardly justified