ENG236H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thyestes, Numbers Game, Atreus
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Murder in rue morgue: fugitive-slave narrative: creature claims what belongs to man (like shaving etc) Most ppl say to do opposite next time. For dupin and sherlock holmes, notion of hierarchy esp of intelligence. Have to figure out how intelligent your antagonist is. There are two brothers, i know; and both have attained reputation in letters. The minister i believe has written learnedly on the. He is a mathematician, and no poet. you are mistaken; i know him well; he is both. As poet and mathematician, he would reason well; as mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all . Defense of poetry: i mean to say, continued dupin, while i merely laughed at his last observations, That if the minister had been no more than a mathematician, the prefect would have been under no necessity of giving me this check.
