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the gold-bug (work 7 of 123) 3/5. i loved the beginning with jupiter being the smartest one of the group not putting up with white people bullshit. but it falls apart when they get to the tulip tree where jupiter is reduced to the worst sort of racial stereotype as part of his penance while legrand starts yapping about superiority and cryptograms.

von kempelen and his discovery (work 6 of ?) 1/5 boring! contrived! if you’re going to do an alchemy story about the philosopher’s stone, fucking COMMIT to it

a descent into the maelström (work 5 of ?): 3/5. sure why not

message found in a bottle (work 4 of ?): 5/5 literally what the fuck that was so unnerving and cool

mesmeric revelation (work 3 of ?): 4/5 BRO WHAT THE FUCK. that man was a zombie !!!!! he spoke from beyond the grave !!!!!!

the balloon-hoax (work 2 of ?): 2/5. boring! pointless! whatever!

the unparalleled adventure of one hans pfaall (work 1 of ?) 3/5. the victorian science lingo was boring as shit but the neurotic man was funny and the ending straight made me cackle

“the unparalleled adventure of one hans pfaal” is MAD incomprehensible