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John Abernathy is referenced in Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter (1844).
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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)