Waypoint – “The Imp of Perversity”
Another Halloween treat from Poe, a reading of this lesser-known tale. And follow the podcast for some ways to think about it and “The Tell-Tale Heart”!
Another Halloween treat from Poe, a reading of this lesser-known tale. And follow the podcast for some ways to think about it and “The Tell-Tale Heart”!
This story, a quintessential Poe classic, is perfect not only for its conception of the psychology of horror, but for our larger discussion in Le Guin’s Journey 6.
Right now I’d rather be stupid and alive than, well, let me talk this through. But if this somehow gets to you today, it’s it’s Tuesday then people then get people up here, OK? I mean right now. But.
In the film, much of this layered social critique by Wilde is instead laid at the feet of a cat. . . .
On their own, as a film, the changes made almost betray the claustrophobic prose of Poe’s story.
This is it, then. Branagh may believe he is channeling Shelley, but his own dithyrambic ego prevents us from seeing her.
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