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    What classic Poe short story opens with the line, "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you call me mad?"

    Question #22843. Asked by Allen. (Sep 27 02 8:32 AM)


    Tabby Tom

    		'The Tell-Tale Heart'

    You can read it at:
    http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

    Sep 27 02, 9:09 AM
    Kainantu

    		'The Tell-Tale Heart.'
    .
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    ~'True!--nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story...' ~

    Edgar A. Poe became my favorite author my junior year of High School when, in American Literature class I read for the first time 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' I was amazed that a story written so long ago could give me chills the way it did.


    Sep 27 02, 9:12 AM

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