tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19976400390261614352024-03-05T21:07:41.451+01:00Words Lost & RegainedAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-67159906027593078602018-01-25T19:19:00.000+01:002018-01-25T19:19:05.793+01:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Virginia Woolf</span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;">born on 25th January 1882 </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">"Big Ben was beginning to strike, first the warning,musical; then the hour, irrevocable"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)</span></i></span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Virginia Woolf</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">born on January 25, 136 years ago</span></h3>
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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out of her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach." <i>(Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)</i></blockquote>
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-17614592788702417682015-11-17T22:57:00.002+01:002015-11-17T22:58:45.728+01:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-81535355362517828982015-11-17T22:51:00.003+01:002015-11-17T22:53:56.345+01:00Aprés la faute (vers 1885-1890) - Jean Béraud<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-78341781602820618562015-11-17T22:47:00.005+01:002015-11-17T22:47:54.760+01:00Jean Béraud<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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ammesso al <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salon</i> parigino nel 1872,
ma gli fu riconosciuto un certo successo solo quattro anni più tardi quando,
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morì a Parigi il 4 ottobre 1935 all’età di 86 anni. È sepolto accanto alla
madre nel cimitero di Montparnasse.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Jean Béraud</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> was a French painter who became famous for his paintings concerning daily
life in Paris during the Belle Époque. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Throughout his life his style gradually shifted
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Petersburg on January 12, 1849. His father was a sculptor who died when Jean
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There he met the famous
painter Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) and began his career as a painter, too. His
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1889 he exhibited with the Society of French Watercolorists at the World’s Fair
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-8893752521430399812015-11-17T15:01:00.001+01:002015-11-17T15:01:22.805+01:00Paris by Jean Béraud<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeune femme traversant le boulevard (1897)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-43938932932310332132015-11-17T14:51:00.003+01:002015-11-17T14:51:39.411+01:00Jean Béraud (1849-1935)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-4669718390388858972015-11-17T11:46:00.000+01:002015-11-17T12:59:44.793+01:00'La Marsigliese' (1880) - Jean Béraud <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-63455754316516112032012-03-29T19:36:00.003+02:002012-03-29T19:45:43.645+02:00Roger Daltrey<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgtEIyph6KZZiArX5XXH_tGJAm5Ok5UrFPfvZLmBYIsRpjZsCAixb5CE2kYQ0yLecqrq_r066jQDBBYgBSCJuM2qcSZjQDbhPKhB_ETLcwH8Zbjzl1xLqk8XVlJNEmXrFv7CU8HilZz47/s1600/ConcertoRogerDlatreyMilano24marzo-150x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dea="true" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgtEIyph6KZZiArX5XXH_tGJAm5Ok5UrFPfvZLmBYIsRpjZsCAixb5CE2kYQ0yLecqrq_r066jQDBBYgBSCJuM2qcSZjQDbhPKhB_ETLcwH8Zbjzl1xLqk8XVlJNEmXrFv7CU8HilZz47/s200/ConcertoRogerDlatreyMilano24marzo-150x150.jpg" width="200px" /></a></div><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">Roger Daltrey</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"> performs The Who's Tommy</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #073763; font-size: small;">Milan, 24th March 2012</span></span></strong><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>I'm free-I'm free<br />
And freedom tastes of reality<br />
I'm free-I'm free<br />
And I'm waiting for you to follow me</strong></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong><em>If I told what it takes<br />
to reach the highest high,<br />
You'd laugh and say "nothings that simple"<br />
But you've been told many times before<br />
Messiahs pointed to the door<br />
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!<br />
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I'm free-I'm free<br />
And freedom tastes of reality<br />
I'm free-I'm free<br />
And I'm waiting for you to follow me</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="color: #20124d;">How can we follow?</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong><em><span style="color: #20124d;">How can we follow?</span></em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</em></strong></span></span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-51270649187940033692012-02-24T23:17:00.000+01:002012-02-24T23:17:39.045+01:00La Quaresima, Maria Rosa Bozzato<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>FESTE E TRADIZIONI :</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">S<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">toria della Quaresima e del digiuno</i></span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>by <span style="font-size: large;">Maria Rosa Bozzato</span></strong></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I profondi mutamenti sociali, avvenuti specialmente negli ultimi decenni, hanno allungato l’ombra del Carnevale ormai su tutto l’anno, disperdendo l’intensità emotiva che accompagnava il passaggio dal Carnevale alla Quaresima, e riducendo il digiuno a necessario rimedio per smaltire i chili di troppo. Ma perché <personname productid="La Quaresima" w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Quaresima</i></personname>?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Si parla per la prima volta della Quadrigesima nel 325 al Concilio di Nicea. Quadrigesima o Quaresima perché quaranta è il numero simbolico sia nel Vecchio che nel Nuovo Testamento, per prepararsi all’incontro col divino. Infatti per quaranta giorni dura il diluvio universale, per quarant’anni il popolo ebreo vaga nel deserto e infine, per quaranta giorni, sempre nel deserto, Gesù digiuna.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fin dai primi tempi, pensando al digiuno di Gesù, i Cristiani sentirono il dovere di <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>imitarlo almeno nei giorni che precedono <personname productid="la Pasqua. E" w:st="on">la Pasqua. E</personname> i primi Maestri a parlarci del digiuno quaresimale furono S. Girolamo, S. Agostino e il nostro S. Ambrogio.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Si adottò quindi la consuetudine giudaica di posticipare al tramonto del sole l’unico pasto consentito, usanza che nei paesi occidentali durò a lungo, fino a quando il pasto consentito si spostò a mezzogiorno, per esigenze anche lavorative in quanto intercorrevano troppe ore di digiuno<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ininterrotto e senza<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>riposo.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anche il grande S. Benedetto,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nella sua Regola, lasciò la facoltà agli Abati di decidere come sostenere nelle fatiche giornaliere i monaci che tra preghiera e lavoro avevano una giornata molto lunga. Si permise dapprima un bicchiere di vino prima di compieta e con il tempo anche<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>un boccone di pane, poiché si accorsero che solo il vino poteva nuocere alla salute. E siccome i monaci prendevano tale<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ristoro durante la lettura della sera, detta “collatio”, ecco nascere da <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>questo piccolo sollievo la parola “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">colazione”. A</i> questa colazione si aggiunse pian piano anche della frutta e della verdura, sempre in modica quantità, tanto da diventare un piccolo pasto.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ma anticamente come si presentava la mensa quaresimale?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certo per i poveri la differenza era poca anche perché la loro tavola era comunque poco imbandita; la carne era una rarità e spesso le uova e i latticini servivano per il baratto (lo praticavano in campagna anche i miei nonni fino alla metà degli anni cinquanta). E i ricchi? Sicuramente per loro qualche piccola differenza c’era: innanzi tutto si sostituiva lo strutto con l’olio e spesso con l’aglio e altri aromi. Le verdure potevano comunque essere accompagnate dai farinacei e, anche se la carne non era ammessa, c’era tuttavia il pesce fresco o essiccato che, per misteriose ragioni fondate sulle Sacre Scritture, era ritenuto di magro.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anche la rivoluzione francese, responsabile della scomparsa di molte tradizioni popolari, non è comunque riuscita a cancellare il rispetto e la devozione che il popolo aveva della Quaresima, tanto che la tradizione del digiuno si è mantenuta con un certo rigore fino a tempi non lontani.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Molte sono anche le abitudini e le tradizioni che ancora si conservano, soprattutto nelle piccole comunità<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>che rubando qualche giorno alla Quaresima allungano o interrompono<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>il periodo di digiuno e penitenza. Digiuno e penitenza che ormai sono pratiche desuete. Forse nella nostra civiltà il vero digiuno sarebbe l’astensione dalla tivù e dal cioccolato. Difficile! Ma dopo qualche sacrificio, anche piccolo, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>la gioia della Pasqua non esploderebbe in tutta la sua intensità? </span><br />
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<em>Olio su tela,</em><br />
Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio<br />
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna<br />
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</tbody></table></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-26296279219385232152012-02-24T22:42:00.001+01:002012-02-24T22:44:30.540+01:00Lampi di genio, Oscar Wilde<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Lampi di genio</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #20124d;">Aforismi e citazioni di O. Wilde</span></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Doing nothing is hard work.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Non far nulla è un lavoro duro.</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To live is the rarest thing in the world. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Most people exist, that is all.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Vivere è la cosa più rara al mondo. </strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>La maggior parte della gente esiste, e nulla più.</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Esperienza è il nome che tutti danno ai propri errori.</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="ListParagraphCxSpPrimo" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Always forgive your enemies- nothing annoys them so much.</span></div><div align="center" class="ListParagraphCxSpPrimo" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Perdona sempre i tuoi avversari -</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="ListParagraphCxSpUltimo" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>nulla li infastidisce di più.</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 283.2pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Who, being loved, is poor?<br />
<strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chi, essendo amato, è povero ?</i></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A cynic man is a man who knows the price of everything, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and the value of nothing.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Un cinico è un uomo che conosce il prezzo di tutto</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e il valore di nulla.</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Health is the first duty in life</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">La salute è il primo dovere della vita.</span></strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">I can</span></span><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"> <span class="hps">resist everything</span> <span class="hps">except</span> <span class="hps">temptation.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Posso resistere a tutto, eccetto che resistere alle tentazioni.</strong></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">It should</span></span><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"> be necessary <span class="hps">to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be always </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">in love</span>. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">This</span></span><span lang="EN" style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"> <span class="hps">is the</span> <span class="hps">reason why</span> <span class="hps">one should never</span> <span class="hps">marry.</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Bisognerebbe essere sempre innamorati . </strong></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="hps"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: whitesmoke; border-bottom: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-left: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-right: whitesmoke 1pt solid; border-top: whitesmoke 1pt solid; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-border-alt: solid whitesmoke .75pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Questa è la ragione per cui non bisognerebbe mai sposarsi .</strong></span></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bigamy is having one wife too many.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Monogamy is the same.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">La bigamia è avere una moglie di troppo. </span></strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">La monogamia è lo stesso.</span></strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Illusion is the first of all pleasures.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">L'illusione è il primo di tutti i piaceri.</span></strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every crime is vulgar, as every vulgarity is a crime.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Ogni crimine è volgare, come ogni volgarità è un crimine.</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Ogni santo ha un passato, e ogni peccatore ha un futuro.</strong></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><strong>a cura dei corsisti di</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><em><strong><span style="color: #20124d;">Lingua e Letteratura I</span></strong></em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>UNITRE CESANO MADERNO (</strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>MB)</strong></span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-90817952082366970102012-02-24T22:21:00.001+01:002012-02-24T22:24:12.322+01:00Oscar Wilde, Vita<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Impertinente, sensibile, geniale... </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Oscar </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">at last!</span></b><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">by</span> </span> <span style="font-size: large;">Maria Rosa Bozzato</span></span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #741b47;"></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>“I wrote when I did not know life,</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write.</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Life cannot be written, life can only be lived”</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“Ho scritto quando non conoscevo la vita. Ora che so il senso della vita, non ho più niente da scrivere. La vita non può essere scritta: la vita può essere soltanto vissuta”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em>In questa frase - rivolta da Oscar Wilde, ormai in esilio, ad un’amica di sua madre - possiamo racchiudere la storia di questo geniale scrittore, vissuto nella seconda metà del diciannovesimo secolo in piena era vittoriana, critico e allo stesso tempo partecipe della vita del suo tempo.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, nasce nell’ottobre 1854 a Dublino, secondogenito di una famiglia benestante. Suo padre William, divenuto Sir per meriti scientifici, era un rinomato medico chirurgo otorinolaringoiatra e oculista, autore di testi medici importanti e al tempo stesso romantico ricercatore del folklore irlandese. Sua madre Jane Elgee era una donna eccentrica, nazionalista convinta, che col nome di <em>Speranza </em>scriveva poemi in grado di infiammare gli animi già caldi degli Irlandesi. Due genitori affettuosi che saranno travolti improvvisamente da un grandissimo dolore: la morte prematura dell’adorata figlia Isola Francesca. Oscar allora dodicenne, colpito nel suo amore di fratello, scrive così i suoi primi delicati versi: </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>‘Tread lightly, she is near<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>‘Fate piano, è qui vicina</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>Under the snow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sotto la neve,</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>Speak gently, she can hear<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Parlate adagio, lei può sentire</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>The daisies grow …’<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Crescere le margherite…’</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Studente brillante, Wilde frequenta le migliori scuole della sua epoca, dal Trinity College <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">di</span> Dublino fino ad Oxford dove diventa un brillante oratore. Non ama gli sport, preferisce leggere e le lettere classiche sono la sua passione tanto che, giovanissimo, ottiene la <em>Gold Medal for Greek</em>. Nel 1876-77 viaggia molto in Italia e in Grecia col professor Mahaffy che gli trasmette l’amore per l’ellenismo. Nel 1878 si laurea e lascia Oxford e nello stesso anno vince il <em>“Newdigate Prize for Poetry”</em>. Si stabilisce a Londra dove comincia a costruire la sua immagine di anticonformista, vestendosi e comportandosi in modo stravagante e creandosi una cerchia di amici che lo imitano. Diventa, anzi inventa, un dandy cinico e impertinente, un provocatore ironico e raffinato che schernisce tutto ciò che è luogo comune e anche buon senso. Nel 1882, sempre bisognoso di soldi a causa della sua vita dispendiosa, accetta un invito come “lettore” negli Stati Uniti, dove arrivando sentenziò <em>“Io non ho niente da dichiarare, tranne il mio talento</em>”. Tornato in patria nel 1884 sposa Constance Lloyd dalla quale avrà due figli. Per i bambini e per tutti, Wilde diventa un narratore delicato e romantico. Scrivendo brevi racconti come <em>The Canterville Ghost (1877), The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888), The Portrait of Mr. W.H. (1889), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891), The House of Pomegranates (1891)</em>, metterà così a nudo - per sempre - il suo animo sensibile e gentile.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Wilde trascorre anni pieni di lavoro e soddisfazioni: i salotti buoni se lo contendono anche se tutti temono le sue battute pungenti, i famosi aforismi, dai quali non si salva nessuno. E’ autore di brillanti testi teatrali come <em>Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Ideal Husband (1895),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Importance of Being Earnest (1895</em>), con i quali ironizza sulle manie e le ipocrisie dell’alta società che lui stesso frequenta. Nel 1890 Wilde pubblica l’unico suo romanzo <em>“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, </em>mirabilmente integrato nel 1891 dalla famosa “Prefazione” che diventerà il Manifesto dell’Estetismo <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">i</span>nglese. L’opera, intrisa di decadente estetismo, parla di un giovane bellissimo che desidera rimanere per sempre uguale. Sarà invece il suo ritratto a invecchiare e a portare i segni della sua vita dissoluta. Solamente al momento della sua morte il ritratto riprenderà la sua bellezza <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">originaria,</span> mentre il viso di Dorian si trasformerà e rivelerà a tutti la malvagità del suo animo. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">La ruota della fortuna di Wilde gira rovinosamente nel 1895 quando il marchese di Queensberry lo denuncia per la sua relazione omosessuale col giovane figlio. Il Poeta viene processato e condannato a due anni di prigione. Subisce ogni sorta di privazioni e umiliazioni e quando viene rilasciato è ormai un uomo distrutto. Solo, anche se avrà per sempre l’affetto della moglie e dei figli, raggiunge alla fine Parigi dove condurrà una vita misera e solitaria e dove si spegnerà, dopo aver abbracciato la Fede Cattolica, il 30 novembre del 1900 per un attacco di meningite. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Le sue ultime opere sono: il <em>“De Profundis</em>”, una lunga lettera scritta nel carcere di Reading<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nel 1897, pubblicata parzialmente nel 1905 e completamente solo nel 1962; e<em> “ The Ballad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Reading Gaol (1898)”,</em> un lungo poema che descrive la sua penosa e sofferta prigionia. </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>‘And alien tears will find for him<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>‘Lacrime sconosciute riempiranno</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>Pity’s long-broken urn,<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>l’urna della Pietà per lui.</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>For his mourners will be outcast men,<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Avrà i lamenti degli uomini esiliati,</strong></span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And outcasts always mourn’<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>per gli esiliati esiste solo il pianto’</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 70.8pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Epitaffio sulla tomba del Poeta</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">da</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Ballad of Reading Gaol</span></em><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div></span></span>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-17044210894366088342012-02-09T14:59:00.003+01:002012-02-09T15:07:08.065+01:00Angelo Ventura, Tutta una Vita<h4 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday Daddy!!!</span></h4><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000;">“Tutta una vita”</span></span></h1><h5 style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">Il sacrificio del mio caro amico</span></span></h5><h5 style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;">Natale Lanzani</span></span></h5><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-small;"><strong>(1924-1946)</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><h3 align="right" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><h3 align="right" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ai giovani<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>di ogni </span></span></span></h3><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">futura generazione</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b></span></span></div></span></h3><h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Presentazione</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span></h1><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Quanto spero e desidero descrivere non è che un semplice e breve riassunto del grande sacrificio del mio carissimo amico Natale, il quale seppe meravigliosamente donare la propria vita come grande testimonianza d’amore ai suoi cari genitori, agli amici e ancora di più<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alla Patria, nel magico momento della sua più fiorente giovinezza.</span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Per me ed i miei amici la vita di Natale sarà un indimenticabile ricordo. Ci amammo come fratelli per ben vent’anni durante i quali condividemmo i momenti tristi e quelli felici, situazioni dure ma anche attimi magici che segnarono, in particolare, la nostra adolescenza. </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ma quando la vita maggiormente sembrava sorriderci arrivò la guerra. E così ‘il dissanguamento dei popoli’ ci separò, ed un destino più che mai triste toccò al nostro caro amico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ora che la sua presenza non è più materiale, ma solo spirituale non ci rimane che il ricordo indelebile della sua bontà e della sua tragica esperienza umana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E come i grandi eroi vengono onorati con ricompense al valore,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>io desidero onorarlo con un semplice scritto, la cui intestazione di tre sole parole,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Tutta una Vita” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quella vita che gli è stata strappata<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>basti a significare tutto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E a non dimenticare.</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Angelo Ventura</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">……. Il giorno 23 gennaio ci fu il funerale. Era mercoledì e la neve cadeva abbastanza fitta ma questo nostro piccolo, grande eroe fu ugualmente accompagnato al Campo Santo da un lungo corteo funebre. Dopo aver chiesto ai compagni di leva di lasciare a noi intimi amici l’onore di un discorso, io stesso mi volli assumere l’incarico di pronunciare le ultime parole di commiato. Perciò dopo l’ultima benedizione impartita al feretro, tra la commozione generale salutai a nome di tutti il nostro caro amico:</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy';"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">“Natale!</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Questo tuo caro nome lo imparammo fin dalla più tenera età. Più tardi, frequentando le scuole ci conoscemmo meglio e così diventammo amici inseparabili. Continuammo poi a volerci bene come fratelli trascorrendo insieme gli anni migliori. Dividemmo con te le difficoltà della scuola, il peso del lavoro, giorni tristi e giorni felici. Solo non potemmo dividere con te il peso della lontananza dalla nostra cara Italia, le pene e le sofferenze fisiche e morali della tua lunga prigionia.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Ricordo come se fosse solo ieri quel lontano 23 agosto 1943 quando <personname productid="la Patria" w:st="on">la Patria</personname> ti chiamò ad indossare quella divisa grigioverde che molti tuoi amici e conoscenti già portavano. Dopo appena 15 giorni dalla tua chiamata alle armi, per avvenimenti storici improvvisi, venisti deportato in Germania, quale prigioniero di guerra.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Come tu stesso ci hai recentemente narrato, e più ancora la testimonianza dell’insidiosa malattia che ti procurò la morte ci ha confermato, siamo coscienti che in quella lontana ed inospitabile terra tu abbia sofferto l’incredibile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ma, anche,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tutto ci dice che hai preferito le sofferenze che ti han tolto la vita, piuttosto che affiancarti alla criminalità nazifascista, alla quale più volte fosti invitato ad aderirvi. E da eroe, fedele alla tua idea, con la rassegnazione dei forti e unito a moltissimi altri eroi come te, hai preferito il tormento e le sevizie della prigionia, quello della fame e dell’inganno subìto, fino al sacrificio estremo della vita.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Per noi che ti amiamo e che siamo orgogliosi di te, non rimarrebbe che una sola cosa: vendicarti!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ma ti vendicheremo non secondo gli usi e i costumi nazifascisti e cioè con nuove violenze e spargimento di sangue, ma col farti rivivere in noi col tuo eroismo e la ricchezza del tuo amor patrio per una ricostruzione vera dell’Italia nostra.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Il resto lo lasciamo a Dio, Creatore e Padrone di ogni cosa, Giudice Eterno, perché arrivi Lui con la sua sapiente giustizia a bussare alla porta di chi fu la causa di tanto male.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">In questo lembo di terra benedetta permettici di pronunciare ancora il tuo caro nome: Natale!</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Dal cielo, che certamente il sacrificio ti ha meritato, veglia e consola i tuoi cari, noi tuoi amici e<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tutti i tuoi compagni di leva. Noi di te serberemo il più bello e duraturo ricordo. Per noi sei una nuova stella che dall’alto splende e ci indica il nuovo cammino.</span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoHeading7" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 70.8pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>“C’è tanta gente che non vuol sentire. E non solo chi non ha</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>provato,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ma anche quelli che hanno patito<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spesso vogliono </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>dimenticare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>che<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>parlare<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>non<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>è<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>una<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>consolazione,</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>perché si patisce,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>però io vorrei che tutto il mondo sapesse.</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>Io<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dico che il prigioniero<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>è<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>il prigioniero,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in qualsiasi posto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>Siccome non<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>si<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>può mai sapere quello che<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>può succedere, </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>prego<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perché Dio non dia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a nessuno da<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soffrire quello che </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>noi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>abbiamo sofferto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La guerra è brutta,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>le prigionie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sono</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>brutte,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bisogna<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>confrontarsi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>con<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>queste<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>realtà,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sapere, </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 70.8pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>conoscere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speriamo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>che la pace continui,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ma anche nella </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>pace credo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>che ogni persona debba sapere tutto quello che</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>è successo, e non dimenticare, non dimenticare. Certe cose </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>non si dovrebbero dimenticare mai.”</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 177pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Savina Rupel</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 70.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Da <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Storia di Savina’ </i>di<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marco Coslovich</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-36572041714126824782012-02-07T22:29:00.017+01:002012-02-07T22:54:47.871+01:00A Terribly Strange Bed, W. Collins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQ5tFnIuYhQf3lPftEYozMeqfz8GlXbDina628XNxXzElwTS7w6BHrjRKFRESlEDZsyaWlQbY2DrGm3Y9uf0_1Q68QsyTlehYam0L_A_SKc1RhO_WugoTp3lA4s6IJ834tBkbhMJljL_b/s1600/220px-Wilkie-Collins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQ5tFnIuYhQf3lPftEYozMeqfz8GlXbDina628XNxXzElwTS7w6BHrjRKFRESlEDZsyaWlQbY2DrGm3Y9uf0_1Q68QsyTlehYam0L_A_SKc1RhO_WugoTp3lA4s6IJ834tBkbhMJljL_b/s320/220px-Wilkie-Collins.jpg" width="220px" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>Wilkie Collins </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>1824 – 1889</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>English novelist, playwright, </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>and author of short stories. </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">His works were classified at the time </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensation_novel" title="Sensation novel"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sensation novels</span></a>'</i>, </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">a genre seen nowadays</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> as the precursor to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">detective</span></a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">and suspense fiction.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I soon felt not only that I could not go to sleep, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but that I could not even close my eyes. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was wide awake, and in a high fever. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every nerve in my body trembled-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-every one of my senses seemed to be preternaturally sharpened. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I tossed and rolled, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and tried every kind of position, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and perseveringly sought out the cold corners of the bed, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and all to no purpose. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I thrust my arms over the clothes; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I poked them under the clothes; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I violently shot my legs straight out down to the bottom of the bed; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I convulsively coiled them up as near my chin as they would go; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I shook out my crumpled pillow, changed it to the cool side, patted it flat, and lay down quietly on my back; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">now</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I fiercely doubled it in two, set it up on end, thrust it against the board of the bed, and tried a sitting posture. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every effort was in vain; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I groaned with vexation as I felt that I was in for a sleepless night.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What could I do? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I had no book to read. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And yet, unless I found out some method of diverting my mind, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I felt certain that I was in the condition to imagine all sorts of horrors; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to rack my brain with forebodings of every possible and impossible danger; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in short, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to pass the night in suffering all conceivable varieties of nervous terror.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I raised myself on my elbow, and looked about the room—</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which was brightened by a lovely moonlight pouring straight through the window--to see if it contained any pictures </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">or ornaments that I could at all clearly distinguish. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While my eyes wandered from wall to wall, a remembrance of Le Maistre's delightful little book, <i>Voyage autour de ma Chambre</i>, occurred to me. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I resolved to imitate the French author, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and find occupation and amusement enough to relieve the tedium of my wakefulness, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by making a mental inventory of every article of furniture I could see, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and by following up to their sources the multitude of associations which even </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a chair, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a table, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">or a wash-hand stand </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">may be made to call forth.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the nervous unsettled state of my mind at that moment, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I found it much easier to make my inventory than to make my reflections, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and thereupon soon gave up all hope of thinking in Le Maistre's fanciful track-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-or, indeed, of thinking at all. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I looked about the room at the different articles of furniture, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and did nothing more.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was, first, the bed I was lying in; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>a four-post bed</strong></span>, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">of all things in the world to meet with in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Paris</city>-</place></city></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-yes, a thorough clumsy British four-poster, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">with the regular top lined with chintz-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-the regular fringed valance all round-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-the regular stifling, unwholesome curtains, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which I remembered having mechanically drawn back against the posts without particularly noticing the bed when I first got into the room. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> there was the marble-topped wash-hand stand, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">from which the water I had spilled, in my hurry to pour it out, was still dripping, slowly and more slowly, on to the brick floor. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> two small chairs, with my coat, waistcoat, and trousers flung on them. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> a large elbow-chair covered with dirty-white dimity, with my cravat and shirt collar thrown over the back. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> a chest of drawers with two of the brass handles off, and a tawdry, broken china inkstand placed on it by way of ornament for the top. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> the dressing-table, adorned by a very small looking-glass, and a very large pincushion. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> the window--an unusually large window. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> a dark old picture, which the feeble candle dimly showed me. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was a picture of a fellow in a high Spanish hat, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">crowned with a plume of towering feathers. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A swarthy, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">sinister ruffian, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">looking upward, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">shading his eyes with his hand, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and looking intently upward—</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">it might be at some tall gallows at which he was going to be hanged. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At any rate, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">he had the appearance of thoroughly deserving it.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This picture put a kind of constraint upon me to look upward too-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-at the top of the bed. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was a gloomy and not an interesting object, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and I looked back at the picture. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I counted the feathers in the man's hat-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-they stood out in relief-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-three white, two green. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I observed the crown of his hat, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which was of conical shape, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">according to the fashion supposed to have been favoured by Guido Fawkes. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I wondered what he was looking up at. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It couldn't be at the stars; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">such a desperado was neither astrologer nor astronomer. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It must be at the high gallows, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and he was going to be hanged presently. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Would the executioner come into possession of his conical crowned hat and plume of feathers? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I counted the feathers again-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-three white, two green.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While I still lingered over this very improving and intellectual employment, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">my thoughts insensibly began to wander. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The moonlight shining into the room reminded me </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">of a certain moonlight night in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">England</country-region>-</place></country-region></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-the night after a picnic party in a Welsh valley. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every incident of the drive homeward, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">through lovely scenery, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which the moonlight made lovelier than ever, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">came back to my remembrance, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">though I had never given the picnic a thought for years; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">though, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">if I had <i>tried</i> to recollect it, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I could certainly have recalled little or nothing of that scene long past. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of all the wonderful faculties that help to tell us we are immortal, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which speaks the sublime truth more eloquently than memory? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here was I, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in a strange house of the most suspicious character, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in a situation of uncertainty, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and even of peril, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which might seem to make the cool exercise of my recollection almost out of the question; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">nevertheless, remembering, quite involuntarily, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">places, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">people, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">conversations, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">minute circumstances of every kind, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which I had thought forgotten for ever; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which I could not possibly have recalled at will, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">even under the most favourable auspices. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And what cause had produced in a moment the whole of this strange, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">complicated, mysterious effect? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing but some rays of moonlight shining in at my bedroom window.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was still thinking of the picnic-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-of our merriment on the drive home-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-of the sentimental young lady who <i>would</i> quote 'Childe Harold' </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">because it was moonlight. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was absorbed by these past scenes and past amusements, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">when, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in an instant, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the thread on which my memories hung snapped asunder; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">my attention immediately came back to present things more vividly than ever, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and I found myself, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I neither knew why nor wherefore, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">looking hard at the picture again.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Looking for what?</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Good God! </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the man had pulled his hat down on his brows! </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>No! </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the hat itself was gone! </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where was the conical crown? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where the feathers-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-three white, two green? </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Not there! </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In place of the hat and feathers, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">what dusky object was it that now hid </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">his forehead, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">his eyes, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">his shading hand?</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Was the bed moving?</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>I turned on my back and looked up. </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Was I mad? </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>drunk? </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>dreaming? </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>giddy again? </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>or was the top of the bed really moving down-</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>-sinking slowly, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>regularly, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>silently, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>horribly, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>right down throughout the whole of its length and breadth-</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>-right down upon me, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>as I lay underneath?</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My blood seemed to stand still.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A deadly paralysing coldness stole all over me </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as I turned my head round on the pillow and determined to test whether the bed-top was really moving or not, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by keeping my eye on the man in the picture.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The next look in that direction was enough. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The dull, black, frowzy outline of the valance above me </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">was within an inch of being parallel with his waist. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still looked breathlessly. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And steadily </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and slowly –</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-very slowly-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-I saw the figure, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and the line of frame below the figure, vanish, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as the valance moved down before it.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">constitutionally, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">anything but timid. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have been on more than one occasion in peril of my life, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and have not lost my self-possession for an instant; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but when the conviction first settled on my mind that the bed-top was really moving, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">was steadily and continuously sinking down upon me, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I looked up shuddering, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">helpless, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">panic-stricken, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">beneath the hideous machinery for murder, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which was advancing closer and closer to suffocate me </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">where I lay.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>I looked up, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>motionless, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>speechless, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>breathless. </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br />
<strong></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The candle, fully spent, went out; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but the moonlight still brightened the room. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Down and down, </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">without pausing and without sounding, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">came the bed-top, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and still my panic-terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress on which I lay-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>-down and down </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">it sank, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">till the dusty odour from the lining of the canopy </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">came stealing into my nostrils.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At that final moment the instinct of self-preservation startled me out of my trance, and I moved at last. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was just room for me to roll myself sidewise off the bed. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I dropped noiselessly to the floor, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the edge of the murderous canopy touched me on the shoulder.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Without stopping to draw my breath, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">without wiping the cold sweat from my face, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I rose instantly on my knees to watch the bed-top. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was literally spellbound by it. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If I had heard footsteps behind me, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I could not have turned round; </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">if a means of escape had been miraculously provided for me, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I could not have moved to take advantage of it. </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The whole life in me was, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">at that moment, </span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">concentrated in my eyes.</span><br />
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-66817508154658620582012-02-07T21:16:00.002+01:002012-02-07T21:31:27.345+01:00Pieter Bruegel the Elder<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The painter and the connoisseur<br />
c.1565, self-portrait.</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-large;">Pieter Bruegel the Elder</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;">1525-1569</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Flemish renaissance painter </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">and printmaker</span></strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The census at Bethlehem, 1566<br />
oil on wood panel<br />
Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter landscape with a bird trap, 1565<br />
Kunsthistrisches Museum, Vienna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-67</td></tr>
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</div><div align="left"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>Irish novelist & poet</strong></span></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>‘’There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke’</strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Sisters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<strong>’It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us’</strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An Encounter</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>‘’North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free’</strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 9;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Araby</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>‘’She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue’</strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Eveline</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<span style="color: black;"><strong>’The cars came scudding in towards <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dublin</place></city>, running evenly like </strong></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>pellets in the groove of the <street w:st="on"></strong></span></span></i><br />
<address w:st="on">Naas Road’ </address></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the Race</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<strong>’Mrs Mooney was a butcher’s daughter’ </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Boarding House</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<strong>’The bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to the tube, </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>a furious voice called out in a piercing North of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ireland</place></country-region> accent: </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>- Send Farrington here!’’</strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Counteparts</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>‘’The matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women’s </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out’ </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Clay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<strong>’Mr James Duffy lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>found all the other suburbs of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dublin</place></city> mean, modern and pretentious’ </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Painful Case</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘<strong>’Mr Holohan, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu Society, had been </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>walking up and down <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dublin</place></city> for nearly a month, with his hands and </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>pockets full of dirty pieces of paper, arranging about the series of </strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>concerts’</strong></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Mother</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-53553954329506806602011-11-23T23:08:00.000+01:002011-11-23T23:08:55.666+01:00The Black Cat, E.A. Poe (I)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowOqo5a1SnMF2L3JgtXTHYuXn6FD5Hp_Aq5S1qW-kyDH55xRclnVrdTDOKa85CdQ18qJtnHchIBLqPyky6mjGEmyym9ujiw2nCuRM4Qk8x2_A2ZM_p_yVVTg1c_WIt_aTaXpAUrQtgLKp/s1600/jack-o-lantern1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="150px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowOqo5a1SnMF2L3JgtXTHYuXn6FD5Hp_Aq5S1qW-kyDH55xRclnVrdTDOKa85CdQ18qJtnHchIBLqPyky6mjGEmyym9ujiw2nCuRM4Qk8x2_A2ZM_p_yVVTg1c_WIt_aTaXpAUrQtgLKp/s200/jack-o-lantern1.jpg" width="200px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(I)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For the most wild yet most homely narrative</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">which I am about to pen, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I neither expect nor solicit belief.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mad indeed would I be to expect it, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yet, mad am I not – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and very surely do I not dream.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to-morrow I die, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and today I would unburden my soul…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">From my infancy </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I was noted for the docility and humanity </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of my disposition…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I was especially fond of animals…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I married early,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and was happy to find in my wife a disposition </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">not uncongenial with my own…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">rabbits, a small monkey,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and a </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">cat.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>entirely black, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and sagacious to an astonishing degree…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in speaking of his intelligence, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">my wife… </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">which regarded all black cats as </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">witches in disguise…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Pluto </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">– this was the cat’s name – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">was my favourite pet and playmate</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I went about the house. </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It was even with difficulty that I could prevent him </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from following me through the streets.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Our friendship lasted, in this manner, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for several years,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">during which my general temperament and character </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">– though the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">had (I blush to confess it) experienced </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a radical alteration for the worse.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I grew, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">day by day, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">more moody, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">more irritable, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">more regardless of the feelings of others. </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">At length, I even offered her personal violence.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My pets, of course, were made to feel </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the change in my disposition…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For Pluto,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">however, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from maltreating him…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">my disease grew upon me </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">– for what disease is like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alcohol! – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and at length… even Pluto began to experience </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the effects of my ill temper…</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center"></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-20966900207195375872011-11-23T23:02:00.000+01:002011-11-23T23:02:56.889+01:00The Black Cat, E.A. Poe (II)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CLVA6ggXBa1m0JzhN63mb0mLA0Z2LxbH9TFGPBC0d73CiGX-TD4Tubni8C1aQqKhx-QHkh-P33jc_mWlkFNBP4bKiU1RWcwr9zHq16McxahNJIKPvelxkbtii5iu52iJGub7c9x5rsiP/s1600/3356341_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CLVA6ggXBa1m0JzhN63mb0mLA0Z2LxbH9TFGPBC0d73CiGX-TD4Tubni8C1aQqKhx-QHkh-P33jc_mWlkFNBP4bKiU1RWcwr9zHq16McxahNJIKPvelxkbtii5iu52iJGub7c9x5rsiP/s400/3356341_1.jpg" width="257px" /></a></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(II)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One night, returning home, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">much intoxicated…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I fancied … the cat avoided my presence.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I seized him, when…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My original soul seemed, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">at once,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to take its flight from my body…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">opened it,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">grasped the poor beast by the throat,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I blush,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I burn,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I shudder,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">while I pen the damnable atrocity.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When reason returned with the morning…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I experienced a sentiment half of horror,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">half of remorse,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for the crime of which I had been guilty;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but it was, at best,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a feeble and equivocal feeling,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and the soul remained</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">untouched.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I again plunged into excess,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed...</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… and then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>came, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the spirit of PERVERSENESS.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Of this spirit</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">philosophy takes no account.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yet</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I am not more sure </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that my soul lives,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">than I am</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the human heart – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">which give direction to</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the character of <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Man.</place></state></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It was this unfathomable longing of the soul</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to <i>vex itself </i></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to offer violence to its own nature –</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that urged me to continue and finally</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 106.8pt; text-indent: 34.8pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the unoffending brute.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One morning,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in cold blood,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I slipped a noose about its neck and</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hung it </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to the limb of a tree; </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hung it </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">with the tears streaming from my eyes, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; -</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hung it</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">because </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I knew that it had loved me,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and<i> because </i>I felt it had given me no reason of offence; -</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hung it</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">because </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I knew that in so doing I was committing…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a deadly sin that would so</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">jeopardize my immortal soul…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">On the night… this most cruel deed was done…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the whole house was blazing…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the destruction was complete…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The walls, with one exception, had fallen in.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This exception was…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a compartment wall…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I approached and saw,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as if graven in <i>bas-relief </i>upon the white surface,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the figure of a gigantic</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">cat</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… there was a rope about the animal’s neck…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(III)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For months I could not rid myself </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the phantasm of the cat; and…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but was not, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">remorse.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and to look about me… </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for another pet of the same species…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One night as I sat,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">half-stupefied,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in a den of more than infamy,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… it was a black cat </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a very large one –</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">fully as large as Pluto,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and closely resembling him in every respect </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but one…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">covering nearly the whole region of the breast.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">He… appeared delighted with my notice.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This, then </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">was the creature of which I was in search…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">when it reached the house </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it domesticated itself at once,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and became immediately a great favourite </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">with my wife.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For my own part, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I soon found a dislike to it arising within me…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… its evident fondness for myself </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">rather disgusted and annoyed me…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I avoided the creature…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">what added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">was the discovery… that,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">like Pluto, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it had also been deprived of one of its eyes.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">With my aversion to this cat, however,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">its partiality for myself seemed to increase… </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I am almost ashamed to own…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">had been heightened by …</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the character of the mark of the white hair…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">this mark…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of outline…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it was now the representation of an object </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that I shudder to name…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the image </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of a hideous -</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of a ghastly thing – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the GALLOWS ! –</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">oh, mournful and terrible engine </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of Horror and of Crime –</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of Agony and of Death! </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center"></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-25543340094294972102011-11-23T22:49:00.000+01:002011-11-23T22:49:04.249+01:00The Black Cat, E.A. Poe (IV)<div align="center"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTUh30LoPTPxCVpMq6zEaixBvxhTMt98WN0_kVpP8Xd1iZCQJthvrg5Ax38ZAkfthMqgFO2ixTLh_0co2DN5_zlfZea_2pyfU7ZB9qJfRVQZeAlBqBU2vUHQCak7Y66K6g7yMHXPTKVCq/s1600/the-black-cat-532581.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTUh30LoPTPxCVpMq6zEaixBvxhTMt98WN0_kVpP8Xd1iZCQJthvrg5Ax38ZAkfthMqgFO2ixTLh_0co2DN5_zlfZea_2pyfU7ZB9qJfRVQZeAlBqBU2vUHQCak7Y66K6g7yMHXPTKVCq/s320/the-black-cat-532581.jpg" width="226px" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(IV)</span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Alas! Neither by day nor by night </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">knew I the blessing of rest any more!</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">During the former the creature left me no moment alone,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and in the latter I started </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hourly from dreams of unutterable fear </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to find the hot breath of </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the thing </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">upon my face…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… an incarnate nightmare…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… incumbent eternally upon my <i>heart!</i></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The moodiness of my usual temper increased </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to hatred of all things and of all mankind…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… my uncomplaining wife… was the most usual</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and the most patient of sufferers.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One day…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I aimed a blow at the animal…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… but this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Goaded by the interference into a rage </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">more than demoniacal,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I withdrew my arm from her grasp </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and buried the axe in her brain.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">She fell dead upon the spot without a groan.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This hideous murder accomplished, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I set myself forthwith…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to the task of concealing the body.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Many projects entered my mind…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and destroying them by fire…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… I resolved to dig a grave for it in the floor of the cellar…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… I deliberated about casting it in a well in the yard…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… about packing it in a box… and…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… getting a porter to take it from the house…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Finally I determined to wall it up in the cellar,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as the monks of the Middle Ages </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">are recorded to have walled up their victims…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">By means of a crowbar I easily dislodged the bricks, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">having carefully deposited the body against the inner wall…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I relaid the whole structure as it originally stood.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When I had finished,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I felt satisfied that all was right…</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My next step was to look for the beast which had been </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the cause of so much wretchedness,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for I had, at length,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">firmly resolved to put it to death…</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">… it did not make its appearance during the night;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and thus for one night, at least,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">since its introduction into the house,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I soundly and tranquilly slept;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">aye, </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">slept</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">even with the burden of murder upon my soul.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The second and the third day passed,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and still my tormentor came not.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Once again I breathed like a freeman.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The monster,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in terror,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">had fled the premises for ever!</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My happiness was supreme!</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but little.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Some few inquiries had been made,</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">these had been readily answered.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Even a search had been instituted – </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of course nothing was to be discovered.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-46211994035727279942011-11-23T22:34:00.000+01:002011-11-23T22:34:57.904+01:00The Black Cat, E.A. Poe (V)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT-w2_cHoZXaDqd4bKh2qN4hPbNRFh6cM1t6CS6i57DrRAA7wQ7JLAJaA5EsEOvi1VJwYG4cQAKeaYmBbudrEpKs4b10Pzunzt1ODPnFUYAou0Qa6F5fFkuvR2EvWdsRrCqWjKpvGCD_-/s1600/gatto-nero-175x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnT-w2_cHoZXaDqd4bKh2qN4hPbNRFh6cM1t6CS6i57DrRAA7wQ7JLAJaA5EsEOvi1VJwYG4cQAKeaYmBbudrEpKs4b10Pzunzt1ODPnFUYAou0Qa6F5fFkuvR2EvWdsRrCqWjKpvGCD_-/s320/gatto-nero-175x300.jpg" width="185px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(V)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>Upon the fourth day of the assassination,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>a party of the police came, very unexpectedly,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>into the house…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… I felt no embarrassment whatever…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… they descended into the cellar…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… I quivered not in a muscle…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… the police were thoroughly satisfied </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and prepared to depart.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>I burned to say if but one word,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>by way of triumph,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and to render doubly sure their assurance </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>of my guiltlessness.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>‘Gentlemen… I delight to have allayed your suspicions…</strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>By the bye, gentlemen, this – </strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>this is a very well-constructed house…</strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I may say an </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">excellently</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <i>well-constructed house.</i></span></strong></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>These walls – are you going gentlemen? – </strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong>these walls are solidly put together’</strong></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>And here,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>through the mere frenzy of bravado,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>I rapped heavily with a cane…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>upon the very portion of the brickwork </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>behind which stood the corpse </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>of the wife of my bosom…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>But may God shield and deliver me </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>from the fangs </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>of the Arch-Fiend!</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! –</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>By a cry,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>at first muffled and broken,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>like the sobbing of a child,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and then quickly swelling into </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>a long,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>loud,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and continuous scream,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>utterly anomalous and inhuman</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><span><strong><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>a howl –</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>a wailing shriek,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>half of horror and half of triumph,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>such as might have arisen only out of hell,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>conjointly from the throats</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>of the damned in their agony </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>of the demons that exult in the damnation.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>Of my own thoughts is folly to speak.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>For one instant the party… remained motionless…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>In the next</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>It fell bodily.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>The corpse… stood erect…</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>… upon its head, </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>with the red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>sat the hideous beast </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>whose craft had seduced me into murder,</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><strong>I had walled the monster up within the tomb.</strong></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682388929399170272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1997640039026161435.post-4551669335271104482011-11-17T22:59:00.003+01:002011-11-19T11:39:09.063+01:00The Oval Portrait, E.A. Poe<div align="center"><span style="color: black;">It was the portrait of a young girl just ripening into womanhood...</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">It was a mere head and shoulders, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">done in what is technically termed a vignette manner </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">- much in the style of the favourite heads of Sully.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">The arms, the bosom, and even the ends of the radiant hair, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">melted imperceptibly into the vague yet deep shadow </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">which formed the background of the whole.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">The frame was oval, richly gilded and filigreed in Moresque.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">As a thing of art </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">nothing could be more admirable than the painting itself.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">I had found the spell of the picture in an absolute life-likeness of expression, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">which at first startling, finally confounded, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black;">subdued, and appallled me...</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>'She was a maiden of rarest beauty, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>and not more lovely than full of glee.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>And evil was the hour </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>when she saw, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>and loved, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>and wedded </strong></span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><strong>the painter.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>He,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>passionate, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>studious,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>austere, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>and having already a bride </strong></span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>in his Art.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>She, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>-all light and smiles,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>and frolicsome as the young fawn;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>loving and cherishing all things;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>hating only the Art which was her rival;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>dreading only the palette and brushes and other untoward instruments</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;"><strong>which deprived her of the countenance of her lover.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>It was thus a terrible thing for this lady</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>to hear the painter speak of his desire to pourtray even his young bride.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>But she was humble and obedient,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and sat meekly for many weeks in the dark high turret-chamber...</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>And he... became lost in reveries;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>so that he would not see that the light which fell so ghastly... </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>withered the health and the spirits of his bride, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>who pined visibly to all but him.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Yet she smiled on, uncomplainingly,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>because she saw that the painter took </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>a fervid and burning pleasure in his task,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and wrought day and night to depict her who so loved him, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>yet who grew daily more dispirited and weak.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>... as the labour drew nearer to its conclusion, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>there were admitted none into the turret;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>for the painter had grown wild with the ardour of his work, </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and turned the eyes from the canvas rarely...</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>...and he would not see that the tints </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>which he spread upon the canvas</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>And when many weeks had passed,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and but little remained to do,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>save one brush upon the mouth</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and one tint upon the eye,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>the spirit of the lady again flickered up </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>as the flame within the socket of the lamp.</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>And then </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>the brush was given,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>and then </strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>the tint was placed;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>for one moment,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>the painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>but in the next,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>while he yet gazed,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>he grew tremulous and very pallid,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and aghast,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>and crying with a loud voice,</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>"This is indeed Life itself!"</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>turned suddenly to regard his </strong></span></em><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>beloved</strong></span></em></div><div align="center"><br />
<em><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>- she was dead!</strong></span></em><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration by<br />
Arthur Rackham (1935)</td></tr>
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