Poe

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    In spite of the air of fable ... the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin—the creative and the resolvent.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
    Assailed the monarch’s high estate;
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)