You are such a geek. You need to post like this more. This past week, I read two of Melville's Poe-ish short stories: "Bartleby" (speaking of "an explanation that doesn't fulfill its function") and "Benito Cereno," which reminded me of Poe while I was reading it, and is nearly as deeply puzzling as Bartleby is.
Ah humanity!
Also, rabies as a death theory for Poe has been discounted, I believe, or there's some other theory about now, but I sort of like the rabies story myself. There's something so destructively organic about it.
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Date: 2009-04-19 01:55 am (UTC)Ah humanity!
Also, rabies as a death theory for Poe has been discounted, I believe, or there's some other theory about now, but I sort of like the rabies story myself. There's something so destructively organic about it.