"the rest is silence" redux

So - when I titled my last entry "the rest is Silence", I was thinking of Hair and punning on Wintercombe's heroine, Silence. I'd forgotten that "the rest is silence" are Hamlet's last words. Belle's effective use of the phrase in Wintercombe inspired me to look it up.
I'm reading (or re-reading, in some cases) Poe's short stories for a book club tomorrow. Although the excess verbiage is occasionally irritating, I get sucked into each story.