Status Updates From The Man of the Crowd

Reading this with the dynamic book group HORROR OR HEAVEN.
If you are a devout EAP fan, or have never heard of Edgar Allen Poe, please join us in this, our 12th tribute-story read, to the "Grandfather of Symbolism and Surrealism": https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hope to see you there!""

So far so good. Poe is great at wordplay! He using words I gotta look up 🤪

'Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before. They wore the cast-off graces of the gentry; -and this, I believe, involves the best definition of the class.'