Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror of the Relationship: “Madness” in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
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I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect. Keeping originality always in view – for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest – I say to myself, in the first place, “Of the innumerable of effects, or impression, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, select?” (Essays and Reviews 13; emphasis original)
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