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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Little Light Halloween Reading



There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe
 
"The Black Cat"
 
 
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed? - tear up the planks! - here, here - it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
 
- "The Tell-Tale Heart"
 
 
Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace re quiescat!
 
- "The Cask of Amontillado"

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