This backward construction was an authorial slight of hand that Poe understood well. Pondering what he called tales of ratiocination - his own name for detective stories - Poe later remarked, People...
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee
Twas noontide of summer,...
I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
