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Well...
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if it isn't my good friend,
The Poet.
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I can't say I'm surprised
to find you here.
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Whose grave are
you visiting today?
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Who's there?
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Weeping at the same
grave over again?
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Why didn't you choose
any of the others?
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Ligeia, Annabel?
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Or perhaps Berenice?
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So sure Virginia
was going to be the pick
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for today's tortured journey.
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There's no denying
your affection for her.
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What was that poem of yours?
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"It was many and many a year ago
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"That a maiden there lived
whom you may know
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"And this maiden she lived
with no other thought...
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"Than to love and
be loved by me."
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What am I doing?
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I recite poetry with a statue!
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I must be drunk.
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Or mad.
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Or both.
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I am hallucinating.
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Should I answer this one
with another of your stanzas?
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"All that we see or seem
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"ls but a dream
within a dream..."
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Still you have no
clue to who I am.
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I am your shadow, your soul.
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The object of your obsession.
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Are you mad?
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My obsession?
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Recognize me now, Poe?
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Are you feeling lonely?
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Longing again for the departed?
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Silence!
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I came here for solitude.
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Not loneliness.
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Always obsessed with the dead.
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A great subject
for your writings.
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It is not obsession
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but rather inspiration
which drives my writing.
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I wouldn't define it that way.
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Remember Roderick Usher?
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His compulsive obsession for
his departed sister Madeline
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caused such a nervous agitation
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that it lead him
to an early demise.
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It was brotherly love, not
obsession.
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Obsession, superstition,
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unrequited love.
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Who do you want to convince?
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It was a magical place
that filled my childhood
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with visions
to stir the imagination.
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And now, during the whole
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of a dull, dark,
and soundless day
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in the autumn of another year,
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I was alone, passing through
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a singularly dreary
tract of country;
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and at length found myself
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within reach of the
melancholy House of Usher.
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I know not how it was;
but with my first glimpse
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of the house after so long,
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an unexpected sense
of insufferable gloom
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pervaded my spirit.
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What was it?
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What unnerved me so
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in the contemplation
of the House of Usher?
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Its proprietor, Roderick Usher,
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had been one of my boon
companions in boyhood;
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but many years had elapsed
since our last meeting.
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His letter, however,
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had lately reached me
in a distant part
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of the country.
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I scanned more narrowly
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the real aspect of the building.
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Its principal feature
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seemed to be that
of an excessive antiquity.
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The writer spoke of
acute bodily illness,
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of a mental disorder
which oppressed him,
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and brought an
earnest desire to see me,
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as his best,
and indeed his only
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personal friend, in an attempt
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to alleviate some of his malady;
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and I, accordingly,
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obeyed forthwith
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what I still considered
a very singular
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and haunting summons.
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I gazed upon him with a feeling
half of pity, half of awe.
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Frederick!
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My dear friend,
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I have after all this time
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been waiting for your arrival!
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I at first thought it to be
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an overdone cordiality.
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It was with difficulty
that I could bring myself
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to admit the identity of
the man being before me
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with the companion
of my early boyhood.
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He entered into what
he conceived to be
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the nature of his malady.
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The most insipid food
was alone endurable.
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The odors of all flowers
proved oppressive;
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his eyes were tortured
by even a faint light.
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And there were but
peculiar sounds
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which inspired him with horror.
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I began to question
my worthiness
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of being present for my friend,
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who now existed in a world
of which I held no key.
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I shall perish!
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I dread the events
of the future!
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I feel that the period
will sooner or later arrive
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when I must abandon
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life and reason together,
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in some struggle
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with the grim phantasm...
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...fear.
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But what do you fear, Roderick?
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I must know what
is it that torments
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your every moment.
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I admit that
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much of the peculiar gloom which
afflicts me could be traced
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to a severe
and long continued illness.
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I speak of my tenderly
beloved sister, Madeline.
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My sole companion
for so many long years,
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my last
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and only relative on earth.
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Roderick spoke with
such bitterness,
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which made me shudder.
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And yet, I could tell
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of his complete devotion
towards his sister.
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Madeline...
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Her decease
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will leave me as the last
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of the ancient
race of the Ushers.
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His voice trembled
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as he recounted how even in
her youth, Madeline would fear
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the outside world.
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Roderick loved his sister
for her purity,
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but the foreboding doom
was forever present.
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The Usher's life of loneliness
will mean there will be no heir.
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But on the closing in
of the evening of my arrival
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at the house,
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she succumbed
to the prostrating power
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of the destroyer.
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She is dead!
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Madeline has died!
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She has left me!
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At the request of
Roderick Usher,
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I personally aided him
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in the arrangements
for the temporary entombment.
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And now,
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some days of bitter grief
having elapsed,
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an observable change
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came over the features of the
mental disorder of my friend.
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At times, again, I was
obliged to resolve all
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into the mere inexplicable
vagaries of madness.
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For I beheld him
gazing upon vacancy
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for long hours,
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in an attitude
of the profoundest attention,
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as if listening to some
imaginary sound.
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It was no wonder
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that his terrifying condition
was creeping upon me,
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the wild influence
of his fantastic
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yet impressive superstitions.
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And you have not seen it?
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Then you shall!
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You must!
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You must behold this!
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I hear it, and have heard it.
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We have put her
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living
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in the tomb!
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I now tell you
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that I heard
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her first feeble movements
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in the hollow coffin.
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I heard them many,
many days ago.
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Yet I dared not,
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I dared not speak!
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The rending of her coffin,
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and the grating of the
iron hinges of her prison,
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and her struggles
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within the coppered
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archway of the vault!
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Be calm.
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It is the storm
that draws breath,
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playing tricks on us both!
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Is she not hurrying
to upbraid me for my haste?
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Have I not heard
her footsteps on the stairs?
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Do I not distinguish that heavy
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and horrible
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beating
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of her heart?
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Madman!
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MADMAN!
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I tell you that she now
stands without the door!
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The vision before
me will stay burnt
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into my very soul and haunt me
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to the end of my days.
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Where I gazed,
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the House once stood.
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I saw the mighty walls rushing
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as under there was a long
tumultuous shouting sound,
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like the voice of
a thousand waters
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and the deep and
dank tarn at my feet
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closed sullenly and silently
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over the fragments
of the House of Usher.
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Bravo!
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In your own words he became
a victim of the very terrors
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he had anticipated.
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Much like you.
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Don't you wish you were dead?
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Why should I? I want to live.
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I have more stories to tell.
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Your time is up in your world.
You have nothing to lose,
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no one to love.
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Stop feeling guilty
for other people's death.
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Virginia died in spite
of your care or your love.
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Your mother succumbed
to my power
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leaving you helplessly alone.
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I was so young when she died...
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I was denied even the
memory of her face.
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Guilt never leads to any good.
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If anything you are haunted...
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Haunted by sorrow,
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guilty not of a crime, but of
the inability to stop me...
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If anything, I am guilty of
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giving my readers
what they want.
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A glimpse of redemption,
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stories with a moral
where justice always triumphs.
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Is this what you mean?
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It is impossible to say how
first the idea entered my brain;
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but once conceived,
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it haunted me day and night.
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Object,
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there was none,
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I loved the old man.
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He had never wronged me.
He had never given me insult,
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and for his money,
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I had no desire.
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I think
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it was his eye!
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Yes, that was it!
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One of his eyes resembled
that of a vulture.
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I made up my mind
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to take the life of the old man,
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and thus rid myself
of the eye forever.
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You should have seen
how wisely I proceeded,
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with what caution and foresight
I went to work.
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And every night, about midnight,
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I turned the latch of
his door and opened it.
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And then, when my
head was well in the room,
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I undid the lantern cautiously,
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oh, so cautiously.
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I undid it just so much
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that a single thin ray
fell upon the vulture eye.
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But I found the
eye always closed;
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and so
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it was impossible
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to do the work;
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for it was not the old man
who vexed me,
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but his Evil Eye.
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I was never kinder
to the old man than during
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the whole week
before I killed him.
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And this I did for
seven long nights.
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Every night, just at midnight.
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But I found the
eye always closed.
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Upon the eighth night
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I was more than usually cautious
in opening the door.
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A watch's minute hand moves
more quickly than did mine.
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When I was about to
open the lantern,
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my thumb slipped
upon the tin fastening.
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00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:54,600
And the old man sprang up in bed
272
00:23:54,642 --> 00:23:57,144
crying out: Who's there?
273
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He had been trying
to fancy them causeless.
274
00:24:00,648 --> 00:24:02,650
He had been saying to himself:
275
00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:05,694
"it is nothing
but the wind in the chimney.
276
00:24:05,736 --> 00:24:08,489
It is only a mouse
crossing the floor."
277
00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:11,951
But all in vain...
278
00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:18,832
Then, there came to my ears
279
00:24:18,874 --> 00:24:20,209
a low, dull, quick sound
280
00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:23,504
such as the watch makes
when enveloped in cotton.
281
00:24:23,545 --> 00:24:25,089
I knew that sound well.
282
00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:26,298
It was the beating
283
00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:30,177
of the old man's heart.
284
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:40,062
Meantime the hellish tattoo
of the heart increased.
285
00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:42,147
It grew quicker and quicker,
286
00:24:42,189 --> 00:24:48,946
louder and louder,
every instant.
287
00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:54,076
The old man's hour had come!
288
00:24:54,118 --> 00:24:58,622
He shrieked once, only once.
289
00:25:05,838 --> 00:25:07,798
The old man was dead.
290
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,761
His eye would
trouble me no more.
291
00:25:12,803 --> 00:25:15,764
If still you think me mad,
292
00:25:15,806 --> 00:25:18,434
you will think so no longer
293
00:25:18,475 --> 00:25:20,352
when I describe
294
00:25:20,394 --> 00:25:23,981
the wise precautions I took
for the concealment of the body.
295
00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:26,108
First of all I
dismembered the corpse,
296
00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:28,944
I then took up three planks
from the flooring
297
00:25:28,986 --> 00:25:34,450
and deposited all
between the scantlings.
298
00:25:34,491 --> 00:25:39,246
I then replaced the boards
so cleverly, so cunningly,
299
00:25:39,288 --> 00:25:48,922
that no human eye could have
detected anything wrong.
300
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:51,592
There entered three men,
who introduced themselves
301
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:53,135
as officers of the police.
302
00:25:53,177 --> 00:25:56,138
A shriek had been heard by
a neighbor during the night
303
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:58,849
and they had been deputed
to search the premises.
304
00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:00,934
I bid the gentleman welcome.
305
00:26:00,976 --> 00:26:05,439
The shriek, I said,
was my own in a dream.
306
00:26:05,481 --> 00:26:07,649
The old man, I mentioned,
307
00:26:07,691 --> 00:26:12,946
was absent in the country.
308
00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:15,657
The officers were satisfied,
309
00:26:15,699 --> 00:26:18,077
my manner had convinced them.
310
00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:20,621
But, ere long,
311
00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:25,501
I felt myself getting pale
312
00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:32,466
and wished them gone.
313
00:26:32,508 --> 00:26:34,218
My head ached
314
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:39,389
and I fancied a
ringing in my ears.
315
00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:57,407
I found that the noise
was not within my ears.
316
00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:04,081
I gasped for breath,
317
00:27:04,123 --> 00:27:06,542
and yet the officers
318
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,252
heard it not.
319
00:27:08,293 --> 00:27:16,760
Why would they not be gone?
320
00:27:16,802 --> 00:27:17,928
Oh God!
321
00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:20,639
What could I do?
322
00:27:20,681 --> 00:27:24,852
Was it possible they heard not?
323
00:27:24,893 --> 00:27:26,812
No!... No!
324
00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:28,605
They heard;
325
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:32,401
they suspected!
326
00:27:32,442 --> 00:27:34,903
THEY KNEW!
327
00:27:34,945 --> 00:27:37,072
They were making mockery
328
00:27:37,114 --> 00:27:42,286
of my horror.
329
00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:43,871
"Villains!"
330
00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:49,209
I shrieked, "I admit the deed!
331
00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:52,462
"Tear up the planks!
332
00:27:52,504 --> 00:27:54,506
"Here,
333
00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:58,510
"here!
334
00:27:58,552 --> 00:28:02,639
"It is the beating
335
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:08,562
"of his hideous heart!"
336
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,496
So you presume
everyone is guilty
337
00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:28,832
of some unfathomable crime?
338
00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:31,752
A crime that should
remain unpunished?
339
00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:33,253
I feel flattered.
340
00:28:33,295 --> 00:28:37,633
Your obsession with death is to
my ears like a sweet love song.
341
00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:43,222
What do you mean, obsession?
342
00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:44,431
Come with me,
343
00:28:44,473 --> 00:28:46,725
don't delay for another second.
344
00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:50,938
Being alive in this world
brings you more unbearable pain
345
00:28:50,979 --> 00:28:54,107
and suffering than those
who wish to sleep forever
346
00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:56,568
even as you try to extend life
347
00:28:56,610 --> 00:29:03,325
beyond my sweet embrace.
348
00:29:03,367 --> 00:29:06,870
I remember vaguely,
once I wrote about a doctor.
349
00:29:06,912 --> 00:29:09,581
Someone who challenged you.
350
00:30:31,705 --> 00:30:34,041
My attention, for
the last three years,
351
00:30:34,082 --> 00:30:38,795
had been repeatedly drawn
to the subject of Mesmerism.
352
00:30:47,596 --> 00:30:50,682
In Boston, a 13-year-old
child under hypnosis
353
00:30:50,724 --> 00:30:52,642
could diagnose his own illness,
354
00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:55,354
one which his own doctors
could not determine.
355
00:30:55,395 --> 00:30:57,647
And in India, a paraplegic,
356
00:30:57,689 --> 00:30:59,775
placed in a similar
hypnotic state,
357
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,485
managed to take some steps!
358
00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:03,028
Imagine, Mr. Valdemar,
359
00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:06,073
the progress that Mesmerism
offers to science!
360
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:08,784
My friend,
I respect your enthusiasm,
361
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:10,994
but for my part, I can't disavow
362
00:31:11,036 --> 00:31:14,414
my skepticism
about the future of hypnosis.
363
00:31:14,456 --> 00:31:21,421
Our table is waiting for
us at the Black Swan.
364
00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:23,548
In addition, it
seems that no person
365
00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:26,635
has as yet been mesmerized
in articulo mortis.
366
00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:29,429
What a great testimony
will that be,
367
00:31:29,471 --> 00:31:33,266
witnessing the transition
between life and death.
368
00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:37,396
My friend, if you promise
to change the subject,
369
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,231
I am ready to volunteer myself
370
00:31:39,272 --> 00:31:42,067
to this experiment
at the time of my death.
371
00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:43,610
Really?
372
00:31:57,624 --> 00:31:59,292
Yes, but rest assured,
373
00:31:59,334 --> 00:32:03,463
I have no intention
of dying anytime soon!
374
00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:19,146
It is now rather more
than seven months
375
00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:26,361
since last time I talked
with M. Valdemar.
376
00:32:26,403 --> 00:32:29,573
Phthisis has attacked my lungs.
377
00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:36,788
They give me a few
months at most.
378
00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:40,125
M. Valdemar,
do you remember your promise?
379
00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:42,794
I beg your pardon?
380
00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:45,255
Yes, the idea may seem absurd,
381
00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:48,967
but think of all you
have to gain now.
382
00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:50,510
No...
383
00:32:50,552 --> 00:32:53,305
I don't know.
384
00:32:53,346 --> 00:32:59,144
Allow me to consider it.
385
00:32:59,186 --> 00:33:01,771
Valdemar, you are condemned.
386
00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:04,024
You have no family or home.
387
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:06,401
What have you to lose?
388
00:33:06,443 --> 00:33:09,112
Promise me you will
think about it.
389
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,114
Very well,
390
00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:18,955
lam in your hands.
391
00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:22,792
It was finally arranged between
us that he would send for me
392
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:25,045
about twenty-four
hours before the period
393
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:27,088
announced by his physicians
394
00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:30,759
as that of his decease.
395
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,261
I received this note
within half an hour
396
00:33:33,303 --> 00:33:36,139
after it was written,
and in fifteen minutes more,
397
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:41,186
I was in the dying
man's chamber.
398
00:33:41,228 --> 00:33:43,563
It was about five
minutes to eight when,
399
00:33:43,605 --> 00:33:44,689
taking the patient's hand,
400
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,526
I begged him to state
as distinctly as he could
401
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:49,986
to Dr. I whether he
was entirely willing
402
00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:53,949
that I should make the
experiment of mesmerizing him
403
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:58,745
in his then condition.
404
00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:03,542
Yes, I wish to be mesmerized.
405
00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:08,213
I fear you have
deferred it too long.
406
00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:29,526
At five minutes before eleven,
407
00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:34,155
I perceived unequivocal signs
of the mesmeric influence.
408
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:44,833
When I had accomplished this,
it was fully midnight,
409
00:34:44,874 --> 00:34:46,960
and I requested the
gentlemen present
410
00:34:47,002 --> 00:34:50,297
to examine
M. Valdemar's condition.
411
00:34:50,338 --> 00:34:52,132
The patient's extremities
412
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:57,887
were of an icy coldness.
413
00:34:57,929 --> 00:35:04,686
Still, the general appearance
was not that of death.
414
00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:06,521
Monsieur Valdemar,
415
00:35:06,563 --> 00:35:10,442
are you asleep?
416
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:12,444
Yes,
417
00:35:12,485 --> 00:35:17,073
I am asleep now.
418
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:21,703
Do not wake me!
419
00:35:21,745 --> 00:35:30,462
Let me die so!
420
00:35:30,503 --> 00:35:33,173
It was now the opinion,
or rather the wish,
421
00:35:33,214 --> 00:35:34,382
of the physicians,
422
00:35:34,424 --> 00:35:37,844
that M. Valdemar should be
suffered to remain undisturbed
423
00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:40,889
in his present apparently
tranquil condition,
424
00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,391
until death should supervene,
425
00:35:43,433 --> 00:35:45,727
and this,
it was now generally agreed,
426
00:35:45,769 --> 00:35:48,563
must take place
within a few minutes.
427
00:35:48,605 --> 00:35:51,149
I concluded, however,
to speak to him
428
00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:53,610
once more.
429
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:59,240
Monsieur Valdemar,
do you still sleep?
430
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,533
Yes,
431
00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:01,618
“O.
432
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,578
I have been sleeping
433
00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:04,996
and now...
434
00:36:05,038 --> 00:36:08,583
Now...
435
00:36:16,883 --> 00:36:26,059
I am dead.
436
00:36:26,101 --> 00:36:29,104
It was evident that,
so far, death,
437
00:36:29,145 --> 00:36:31,022
or what is usually termed death,
438
00:36:31,064 --> 00:36:35,944
had been arrested
by the mesmeric process.
439
00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:37,779
The experiment is completed.
440
00:36:37,821 --> 00:36:41,783
But... are we sure he's dead?
441
00:36:41,825 --> 00:36:44,035
You've heard it like me, right?
442
00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:46,121
Is your scientific mind
restricted
443
00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:51,793
by that which you can only see
or hear yourself?
444
00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:54,754
From this period
until the close of last week,
445
00:36:54,796 --> 00:36:57,590
an interval of
nearly seven months,
446
00:36:57,632 --> 00:37:02,554
we continued to make daily calls
at M. Valdemar's house.
447
00:37:02,595 --> 00:37:05,890
I managed to convince my
colleagues to leave M. Valdemar
448
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:08,852
in this state and
to monitor him.
449
00:37:16,025 --> 00:37:20,280
First, we confined ourselves
to simple daily observations.
450
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:24,284
But soon, we were obliged
to face the facts.
451
00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:26,953
Gentlemen,
we are not advancing our work.
452
00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:31,207
These observations
are too superficial.
453
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:33,209
You still wish to
dissect the subject
454
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,961
like a laboratory animal.
455
00:37:35,003 --> 00:37:36,963
Without going that far,
456
00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:39,674
we can engage in
some light tests.
457
00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:41,301
You are mistaken! I...
458
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:44,095
What are you suggesting, Dr. L?
459
00:37:44,137 --> 00:37:46,431
Well, we could always...
460
00:37:46,473 --> 00:37:49,142
let it be.
461
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:40,777
There is nothing further
to be done.
462
00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,780
All of the subject's vital
functions are inert.
463
00:38:43,822 --> 00:38:47,617
He has stopped breathing, his
heart no longer beats, yet...
464
00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:51,162
in seven months, decomposition
has not attacked his body
465
00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:53,665
and no treatment has
cured his illness.
466
00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:57,293
Medically, M. Valdemar is dead.
467
00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,087
Let's wake him up.
468
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:00,880
You're talking nonsense!
469
00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:04,509
These thoughts are sacrilege!
Insanity!
470
00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:06,886
You would not agree
to put him in this state
471
00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:09,347
and now you refuse
to release him from it?
472
00:39:09,389 --> 00:39:11,015
'III
473
00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:14,227
Let it go my friend,
Dr. P is right.
474
00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,688
M. Valdemar is legally dead.
475
00:39:16,729 --> 00:39:22,026
All we can do now
is to offer him a decent burial.
476
00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:28,074
It was on Friday last
that we finally resolved
477
00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:30,326
to make the experiment
of awakening,
478
00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:33,705
or attempting to awaken him.
479
00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:35,957
For the purpose of
relieving M. Valdemar
480
00:39:35,999 --> 00:39:37,625
from the mesmeric trance,
481
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:40,420
I made use of the
customary passes.
482
00:39:40,461 --> 00:39:45,717
These, for a time,
were unsuccessful.
483
00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:48,011
M. Valdemar,
484
00:39:48,052 --> 00:39:53,099
can you explain to us what your
feelings or wishes are now?
485
00:39:53,141 --> 00:39:54,851
For God's sake!
486
00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:56,603
Quick! Quick!
487
00:39:56,644 --> 00:39:57,937
Put me to sleep!
488
00:39:57,979 --> 00:40:00,231
Or Waken me! Quick!
489
00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:03,109
I say to you that I am dead!
490
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:05,028
Dead!
491
00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:08,364
Dead!!!
492
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,545
For what really
occurred, however,
493
00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:25,131
it is quite impossible
that any living human
494
00:40:25,173 --> 00:40:28,426
could have been prepared.
495
00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:46,152
And as I can see, he lost...
496
00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:50,406
lost to me.
497
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,492
He was so close...
498
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:56,955
so close to sparing M. Valdemar
from your fatal embrace.
499
00:40:56,996 --> 00:40:59,207
Was that a crime?
500
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:01,501
A crime against fate.
501
00:41:01,542 --> 00:41:06,714
And your sentence
was a life of endless sorrow.
502
00:41:06,756 --> 00:41:09,467
Stop with your
tortured mind games.
503
00:41:09,509 --> 00:41:13,262
There is nothing worse than
imagining your own death.
504
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:14,222
Isn't it?
505
00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:18,017
Nothing worse than
to fear eternity.
506
00:41:18,059 --> 00:41:20,019
I wrote a story once.
507
00:41:20,061 --> 00:41:22,188
A tale about someone
who relived the hell
508
00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:24,691
of dying a thousand deaths.
509
00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:27,777
Perhaps a mirror where you
saw yourself reflected,
510
00:41:27,819 --> 00:41:29,153
every image
511
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:32,115
a different death.
512
00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:42,727
I was sick...
513
00:42:42,769 --> 00:42:46,481
sick to death with
that long agony.
514
00:42:46,522 --> 00:42:50,860
And when they unbound me, I felt
that my senses were leaving me.
515
00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:01,204
The sentence...
516
00:43:01,245 --> 00:43:03,206
the dread sentence of death...
517
00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:05,458
was the last of
distinct accentuation
518
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,753
which reached my ears.
519
00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:10,338
After that,
520
00:43:10,379 --> 00:43:14,133
the sound of the inquisitorial
voices seemed merged
521
00:43:14,175 --> 00:43:23,684
into one dreamy
indeterminate hum.
522
00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:25,603
I heard no more.
523
00:43:25,645 --> 00:43:26,938
Yet, for a while,
524
00:43:26,979 --> 00:43:30,108
I saw the lips of the judges.
525
00:43:30,149 --> 00:43:35,321
I saw them pronouncing
the syllables of my name,
526
00:43:35,363 --> 00:43:40,785
and I shuddered
because I heard no sound.
527
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:04,392
The tall candles sank
into nothingness;
528
00:44:04,433 --> 00:44:06,644
their flames went out.
529
00:44:06,686 --> 00:44:11,440
The blackness of darkness
supervened.
530
00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:12,733
All sensations appeared
531
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:16,404
swallowed up in a mad
rushing descent as of the soul
532
00:44:16,445 --> 00:44:18,990
into Hades.
533
00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:22,994
Then silence, and stillness,
534
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:25,997
night were the universe.
535
00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:08,831
After this I call to mind
flatness and dampness;
536
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:10,791
and then all the
madness of a memory
537
00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:18,174
which busies itself
among forbidden things.
538
00:45:18,216 --> 00:45:21,636
So far, I had not
opened my eyes.
539
00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:29,810
I dreaded the first glance
at objects around me.
540
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:33,689
My worst thoughts, then,
were confirmed.
541
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:40,863
The blackness of eternal night
encompassed me.
542
00:45:40,905 --> 00:45:43,032
I struggled for breath.
543
00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:47,453
The atmosphere was
intolerably close.
544
00:45:47,495 --> 00:45:48,621
But where
545
00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:52,458
and in what state was I?
546
00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:54,502
The condemned to death, I knew,
547
00:45:54,543 --> 00:45:57,255
perished usually
at the autos-da-fe,
548
00:45:57,296 --> 00:45:59,131
and one of
these had been held
549
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:03,552
on the very night
of the day of my trial.
550
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:06,013
Had I been remanded
to my dungeon,
551
00:46:06,055 --> 00:46:08,891
to await the next
sacrifice, which
552
00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:12,853
would not take
place for many months?
553
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,447
And now,
554
00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:26,200
there came thronging
upon my recollection
555
00:46:26,242 --> 00:46:30,955
a thousand vague rumors
of the horrors of Toledo.
556
00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:32,081
Of the dungeons
557
00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:35,251
there had been
strange things narrated,
558
00:46:35,293 --> 00:46:39,088
strange, and too
ghastly to repeat.
559
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,854
Was I left to
perish of starvation
560
00:46:54,895 --> 00:46:58,566
in this subterranean
world of darkness;
561
00:46:58,607 --> 00:47:02,570
or what fate,
perhaps even more fearful,
562
00:47:02,611 --> 00:47:04,488
awaited me?
563
00:47:24,175 --> 00:47:26,594
My outstretched hands at length
564
00:47:26,635 --> 00:47:30,056
encountered some solid
obstruction.
565
00:47:30,097 --> 00:47:31,599
It was a wall,
566
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,602
I followed it up.
567
00:47:34,643 --> 00:47:38,939
This process, however,
afforded me no means
568
00:47:38,981 --> 00:47:43,736
of ascertaining
the dimensions of my dungeon.
569
00:48:34,412 --> 00:48:36,664
Another step before my fall,
570
00:48:36,705 --> 00:48:40,709
and the world had
seen me no more.
571
00:48:54,557 --> 00:48:56,308
And the death just avoided,
572
00:48:56,350 --> 00:48:59,061
was of that very character
which I had regarded
573
00:48:59,103 --> 00:49:01,647
as fabulous and frivolous
574
00:49:01,689 --> 00:49:05,901
in the tales regarding
the Inquisition.
575
00:49:14,326 --> 00:49:16,287
To the victims of its tyranny,
576
00:49:16,328 --> 00:49:18,247
there was the choice of death
577
00:49:18,289 --> 00:49:20,666
with its direst physical
agonies,
578
00:49:20,708 --> 00:49:25,588
or death with its most hideous
moral horrors.
579
00:49:25,629 --> 00:49:29,425
I had been reserved
for the latter.
580
00:49:42,271 --> 00:49:44,857
I was consumed with
intolerable thirst.
581
00:49:44,899 --> 00:49:48,527
This thirst it appeared to be
the design of my persecutors
582
00:49:48,569 --> 00:49:50,029
to stimulate:
583
00:49:50,070 --> 00:49:52,573
for the food in
the dish was meat
584
00:49:52,615 --> 00:49:54,366
pungently seasoned.
585
00:50:01,457 --> 00:50:03,000
It must have been drugged;
586
00:50:03,042 --> 00:50:06,378
for scarcely had I drunk,
587
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:10,174
before I became
irresistibly drowsy.
588
00:50:25,314 --> 00:50:26,357
I could no longer doubt
589
00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:30,319
the doom prepared for me
by monkish ingenuity in torture.
590
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:32,821
My cognizance of the pit
had become known
591
00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:35,199
to the inquisitorial.
592
00:50:35,241 --> 00:50:36,867
Having failed to fall,
593
00:50:36,909 --> 00:50:38,786
it was no part of the demon plan
594
00:50:38,827 --> 00:50:40,871
to hurl me into the abyss,
595
00:50:40,913 --> 00:50:45,501
and thus a different and a
milder destruction awaited me.
596
00:51:15,114 --> 00:51:19,618
I counted the rushing
vibrations of the steel!
597
00:51:19,660 --> 00:51:21,495
Inch by inch...
598
00:51:21,537 --> 00:51:23,622
line by line...
599
00:51:23,664 --> 00:51:30,254
with a descent only appreciable
at intervals that seemed ages.
600
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,725
Down... steadily down it crept.
601
00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:47,313
Down... certainly,
relentlessly down!
602
00:51:47,354 --> 00:51:51,442
It vibrated within three inches
of my bosom!
603
00:52:02,328 --> 00:52:05,372
I prayed for its
more speedy descent.
604
00:52:05,414 --> 00:52:07,499
I grew frantically mad,
and struggled
605
00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:09,418
to force myself upward
606
00:52:09,460 --> 00:52:13,339
against the sweep
of the fearful scimitar.
607
00:53:11,855 --> 00:53:13,941
For the moment, at least,
608
00:53:13,982 --> 00:53:15,859
I was free.
609
00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:24,618
Free! And in the grasp
of the Inquisition!
610
00:53:24,660 --> 00:53:25,911
Free!
611
00:53:25,953 --> 00:53:27,871
I had but escaped death
612
00:53:27,913 --> 00:53:29,790
in one form of agony,
613
00:53:29,832 --> 00:53:34,837
to be delivered unto worse
than death in some other.
614
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:42,386
For a wild moment,
615
00:53:42,428 --> 00:53:43,554
did my spirit refuse
616
00:53:43,595 --> 00:53:49,518
to comprehend the meaning
of what I saw.
617
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,312
Any horror but this!
618
00:53:52,354 --> 00:53:55,482
Any death but that of the pit!
619
00:53:55,524 --> 00:53:58,110
Might I have not known
that into the pit
620
00:53:58,152 --> 00:54:01,572
it was the object
of the burning iron to urge me?
621
00:54:01,613 --> 00:54:06,076
Could I resist its glow?
622
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:20,758
There was a discordant hum
of human voices!
623
00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:23,844
There was a loud blast.
624
00:54:23,886 --> 00:54:27,848
The French army
had entered Toledo.
625
00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:33,437
The Inquisition was in
the hands of its enemies.
626
00:54:40,861 --> 00:54:45,783
You have devoted
so many pages to my name,
627
00:54:45,824 --> 00:54:48,786
caressing my face
with your poems,
628
00:54:48,827 --> 00:54:51,872
kissing my lips with your prose.
629
00:54:51,914 --> 00:54:57,795
All veiled love letters
addressed to me.
630
00:55:01,882 --> 00:55:03,509
You fear me
631
00:55:03,550 --> 00:55:07,221
and yet you are
insatiably attracted.
632
00:55:07,262 --> 00:55:11,391
Come with me. It's time.
633
00:55:11,433 --> 00:55:15,729
No, it cannot be.
I don't want to be forgotten.
634
00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:17,689
I was buried in a common grave.
635
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:22,361
My writings were
forgotten for years.
636
00:55:22,402 --> 00:55:24,655
You are already dead.
637
00:55:24,696 --> 00:55:28,242
How could you remember
your own death...
638
00:55:28,283 --> 00:55:33,914
unless you have succumbed
to my embrace?
639
00:55:33,956 --> 00:55:36,583
Your life is not
worth living anymore.
640
00:55:36,625 --> 00:55:37,668
It is time
641
00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:39,378
to meet your own ghosts,
642
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:45,259
the people you loved
and lost forever.
643
00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:47,928
Come now, Poe.
644
00:55:47,970 --> 00:55:49,596
You love me!
645
00:55:49,638 --> 00:55:52,349
You've been a corpse
walking amongst the living
646
00:55:52,391 --> 00:55:55,310
for a long time, Edgar.
647
00:55:55,352 --> 00:55:58,272
It must have been
quite a strain.
648
00:55:58,313 --> 00:55:59,940
Maybe you're right.
649
00:55:59,982 --> 00:56:03,151
Sometimes I think the only thing
that kept me from you
650
00:56:03,193 --> 00:56:05,445
was my beating heart.
651
00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:07,781
Look at your final act.
652
00:56:07,823 --> 00:56:10,033
They all succumb to my prowess.
653
00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:11,702
The poor, the weak;
654
00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:14,872
the rich, the powerful.
655
00:56:14,913 --> 00:56:17,875
Everybody bows before me.
656
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:21,003
I offer you one last chance.
657
01:04:52,222 --> 01:04:56,893
Who dares insult us with
this blasphemous mockery?
658
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,822
I don't want my work
to be lost forever.
659
01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:01,160
My work is eternal.
660
01:08:01,202 --> 01:08:03,621
I want that eternity.
661
01:08:03,663 --> 01:08:06,541
I want to be sure
my words will survive me,
662
01:08:06,583 --> 01:08:09,711
that they will be
never lost in time.
663
01:08:09,752 --> 01:08:10,878
That, my friend,
664
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:14,257
nevermore.