Ebook The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Descrizione Ebook The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
To muse for long unwearied hours, with my at tention riveted to some frivolous device on the margin or in the typography of a book; to become absorbed, for the better part of a summer's day, in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry or upon the ?oor; to lose myself, for an entire night, in watching the steady ?ame of a lamp, or the em bers of a fire; to dream away whole days over the per fume of a ?ower; to repeat, monotonously, some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind; to lose all sense of motion or physical exist ence, by means of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in: such were a few Of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to anything like analysis or explanation.