Poe Final

"In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the more attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either part are obtained by superior acumen...Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometimes indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation" (Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 241).

"Yes, I can drive you to the grocery store." "Jennifer Dupin, how on earth did you know that I needed a ride to the grocery store?" "Well we just came out of the library, you see, and I know you were doing our math homework. I recall a problem in which we had to calculate the declining population of sparrows in a lake in West Virginia, which you were no doubt reminded of by that Lime scooter, which of course remind you of the Bird scooters that plague campus. Based on the fact that you looked down at your feet, I can only assume that this made you think of your great aunt who last month died in her home in West Virginia. Seeing that bag of Chick-Fil-A no doubt reminded you of your last family meal with her in which your mother burned the chicken and had to run to the grocery store on Thanksgiving day, where she fought a grandmother for the last turkey, which would explain the following chuckle. This in turn would have reminded you that you also need to go to the grocery store because you ate your last bagel this morning and ran out of milk last night, but that you need a ride because you don't have your car at college, further emphasized by the bikes in front of us. So yes, I can drive you to the grocery store. My fruit has gone bad."

"EXTRAORDINARY MURDERS.--This morning, about three o-clock, the inhabitants of South Mason Street were aroused from sleep by a succession of terrific shrieks, issuing, apparently, from the fourth house on the block, known to be in the sole occupancy of two college seniors."