Status Updates From The Murders in the Rue Morg...

“Observe, here, the laughable confusion of thought!” — saving this for my future manuscript reviews 🤣

What the hell did I just read 🐒🤦🏻‍♀️

“…and made him a direct, and certainly liberal proposition, the precise nature of which I do not feel myself at liberty to disclose…” Since I’ve no clue of what that would hint at at the time, I concluded it’s something extremely juicy 🥤

It’s incomprehensible to me these days that there used to be this large group with generational wealth who never even attempted to work 🤯

Sorry no, that part is just fantastical bullshit

“… if indeed a murder has been committed at all” writes he after mentioning thrice how the women were strangled and wildly beaten to death 🥲

I love how everyone’s testimony is “It was definitely language X. Not that I know a word in the language X…” 😆

Not me realizing now that Rue Morgue has nothing to do with a morgue 🤣

“The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.” Did Poe just claim psychology doesn’t exist? 😆