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Part 1 of 7 (Tell-Tale Heart)
This is why Poe is a master. The first paragraph is nearly incoherent babbling about not babbling, continuous references to sanity when the man is clearly ~not~ sane, just makes it all the more disturbing when you imagine this man--who is rather thin and foolish-looking in my mental eye--sneaking around plotting to murder an EYE.
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After I read your post I went back to take another look at the first paragraph--it's amazing how unsettling just a single paragraph of text can be. When he says how "calmly" he will tell us the story, somehow I don't believe him...
I think my favorite passage from this installment, though, is this creepy line: "He was still sitting up in the bed listening; - just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall."
Brilliant!Mar 20, 2009 6:15 pm
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