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  1. Oct 2023
    1. a small dog.

      Thread.1

    2. Poe's source for his detective is the philosophic protagonist of Voltaire's Zadig

      Poe's source of inspiration

    3. I do not mean to say they are not ingenious — but people think they are more ingenious than they are — on account of their method and air of method

      Characteristic of the reader in writer's mind

    4. It is the ancestor of a vast number of works which have given much harmless pleasure to all sorts and conditions of men

      It has a profound effect

  2. Sep 2023
    1. Upon reaching the first landing, heard two voices in loud and angry contention — the one a gruff voice, the other much shriller — a very strange voice. Could distinguish some words of the former, which was that of a Frenchman. Was positive that it was not a woman's voice. Could distinguish the words ‘sacré’{s} and ‘diable.’ The shrill voice was that of a foreigner. Could not be sure whether it was the voice of a man or of a woman. Could not make out what was said, but believed the language to be Spanish.{t}

      This is the first testimony mentioned the voices of the murderer, which to the point of the core characteristics of the murderer. Thus, the readers might be easily misled that the murderer is human.

    2. Did not see any person in the street at the time. It is a bye-street{f} — very lonely.

      From this testimony, we can see that it implies that no other people know the old lady had huge amount of money at home.

    3. “Several witnesses, recalled, here testified that the chimneys of all the rooms on the fourth story were too narrow to admit the passage of a human being.

      This is the first hint to ask reader think out of the box, maybe the murderer is not a regular murderer, maybe the murderer is not even a human being.

    1. Using ideas from elsewhere requires correct citation, and using ideas from elsewhere without citation is plagiarism.

      If you need to use ideas from elsewhere, you must require correct citations. Don’t use other’s creation!

    1. “The Purloined Letter,”

      It is another detective short story written by Allan Poe.

    2. I do not mean to say they are not ingenious — but people think they are more ingenious than they are — on account of their method and air of method

      The author was slightly annoyed at the attention which was paid to the Dupin stories.

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