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8 ♠ The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Another re-read and another Dupin – hurrah! One of the many wonderful things about this Poe story is the beginning. The narrator basically starts with a spiel on how checkers players have to be more analytical than chess players, since “the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the… Read more >>
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10 ♦ Beauty and the Beast
Once again – I assure you I shuffled this deck very well! But I can’t really complain to get another fairytale, and what could be more appropriate for Valentine’s weekend than this story? The original “Beauty and the Beast” was written in the 18th century by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. According to the endnotes of the… Read more >>
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4 ♠ The Mystery of Marie Rogêt … A ♥ The Old Manse
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is from the trio of C. Augustus Dupin mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe. It is closely based on the real-life murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, except the setting is Paris instead of New York City. Marie Rogêt leaves her home one Sunday evening, purportedly to visit a relative, and she is… Read more >>
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Melville’s "Mosses" – from an Old Mast
The actual title of the book is Billy Budd and Other Stories, published by Penguin Classics. However, there is such a similarity in the writing, I was reminded of the title of a Hawthorne collection, Mosses from an Old Manse. Since Hawthorne was the dedicatee of Moby-Dick and also referenced by name in one of these… Read more >>
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