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The Pit & the Pendulum

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

Not altogether a fool, but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool.

The Raven: 5/5
The Tell-Tale Heart: 3/5 (re-read)

The Raven: 5/5
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The Raven: 5/5

The Raven: 5/5

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

and since there is a consciousness which always accompanies thinking, it is this which makes us all to be that which we call ourselves- thereby distinguishing us from other beings that think, and giving us our personal identity. (principium indivduationis)