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Edgar Allan Poe

 The Imp Of The Perverse is a metaphor for the common tendency, particularly among children or even adults , to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation. The conceit is that the misbehavior is due to an “imp” (a little demon) leading an otherwise decent person, into  an embarrassment  or discomfitures position.One major trait scientists have overlooked in perversity. Men often do things for no better reason than that it will hurt themselves or   others.

 The story begins with a philosophical discussion about how science (especially phrenology)......

When God was getting busy with the creation of the universe, where there was only cosmic goo. God's Play-Doh, things, He put death into a ceramic jar for safekeeping, until he could figure out what to do with it.  One day, God gave the jar to a frog and a toad to guard it from harm while he went off to create something more fantastic. Why He gave it to a frog and a toad, I'll never know. But one thing led to another. The jar shattered, letting death out. And ever since, everything who lives has to die. So there you have it. The mystery of death finally revealed. Which brings us to my story:

Everybody dies. That's just the way it is. The life clock......

"Theodicy" is the word you use to name the act of
combining the existence of God with that of evil
and pain, in short. That word was coined around
the end of the 18th century, and the first notable
 example of it is John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Justifying the ways of God to Man, as Milton put it in his
epic poem, is what theodicy is all about. Surely you have
already heard, or thought yourself, that there couldn't
possibly be a good or sane God in such a world. In view of
all the bad things happening in everyone's life and your
own, how could there be a just God leading everything?
That's an important question and it is not......

"I am here where there is nothing to buy,or sell,I think I am prisoned in a dark cell or it's just a Nightmare in HELL".

 Edgar Poe (he rarely used his adopted name “Allan”) can also be named 
“The master of  the macabre “.The most definite biography of Poe that
I’ve read is “Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance”
by Kenneth Silverman. The book is a must for Poe fans.

… and here s some thoughts : Poe made me think about words. Which is
the loveliest word, the loveliest letter? I believe I may have known that......

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. "

 The significance of this poem is Poe's masterful rhetorical devices
which created a role for the reader to enter. In 'A Dream Within A
Dream: Poe scripted the reader to slip inside his imagined world. By
using first person narrative, Poe, gently led the reader into the role
of 'I'. The 'I' invites the reader to open their imagination, their
memories and insights of loss and despair. By breaking the distance
between the page and the reader's gaze, Poe scripted the 'I' to be
universal.......