As many people have been saying, I would have to agree--I don't care all that much for Poe. That being said, I must say that there are certain things I cannot deny the validity of. Concerning the horror of the unlimited self--I'd have to say that is true. We've got to realize there is truth in that; we have to see the darkness in ourselves before we can go anywhere. We can't dwell in that darkness as Poe does. For some reason I tend to prefer Emerson, I find his writing more interesting by far. I can't handle Poe's scientific, precise narrator bit, it doesn't even seem real. Come on, who thinks like that? It's absurd.

But then again, so is Emerson with his giant transparent eyeballs. These people are crazy.

And they're making me crazy, too.

Isn't that how it's supposed to go in this class though? If it's a search for truth--we're going to run into a lot of false before we get there. I also think that we're going to find broken bits of truth mixed up with a heap of false, though. I try to look for those bits in everything I read.

(Commented on Lane's)