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The Black Cat
FOR the
most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am
about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit
belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a
case where my very senses reject their own
evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do
I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I
would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is
to place before the world, plainly, succinctly,
and without comment, a series of mere household
events. In their consequences, these events have
terrified - have tortured - have destroyed me.
Yet I will not attempt to expound them. To me,
they have presented little but Horror - to many
they will seem less terrible than barroques.
Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found
which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place
- some intellect more calm, more l
Edgar Allan Poe
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