전체 공개 ・ 01.13
2026.01.12 (Mon)
my favorite edgar allan poe tale so far. the plot twist totally twisted my timbers— shiver me timbers, yes. as usual, i am awestruck by poe's writing, you can tell he carefully chooses words in telling a story. it's poetic, even. loved reading this as i watch time pass by on my first day of school. you can tell how much i loved it with the number of lines i highlighted!
Who has not, a hundred times, found himself comitting a vile or a silly action for not other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgrmrnt, to violate that which is law, merely because we understand it to be such?
pg. 106, tales of mystery and imagination, collins classics
And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere humanity.
pg. 110
Evil thoughts became my sole intimates—the darkest and most evil of thoughts.
pg. 110
[...] a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.
pg. 113
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