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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must not--you shall not behold this! said I, shudderingly, to Usher, as I led him with a gentle violence from the window to a seat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not uncommon--or it may be th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Ethelred, who was by nature of a doughty heart, and who was now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, who, in sooth, was of an obstinate and maliceful turn, but, feeling the rain upon ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, the champion, having escaped from the terrible fury of the dragon, bethinking himself of the brazen shield, and of the breaking up of the enchantment which was upon it, removed the carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavemen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not hear it?--yes, I hear it, and _have_ heard it. Long--long--long--many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it--yet I dared not--oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!--I dared not--I _dared_ not speak! _We have put her living in the tomb!_ Said I not that my senses...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of our principal, the Reverend Dr. Bransby. It was a solid structure, with massy door, sooner than open which in the absence of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dominie we would all have willingly perished by the _peine forte et dure._ In other angles were two othe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "William Wilson!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, he said, in a low, distinct, and never-to-be-forgotten _whisper_ which thrilled to the very marrow of my bones," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Wilson, said our host, stooping to remove from beneath his feet an exceedingly luxurious cloak of rare furs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wilson, this is your property. (The weather was cold; and, upon quitting my own room, I had thrown a cloak over my dres...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is he?--whence came he?--and what are his objects?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scoundrel! I said, in a voice husky with rage, while every syllable I uttered seemed as new fuel to my fury;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead--dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist--and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not long ago, said he at length," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and sli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are now, he continued, in that particularizing manner which distinguished him--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The island in the distance, resumed the old man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, said I at length, to the old man--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So it is sometimes termed, said he." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We Norwegians call it the Moskoe-ström, from the island of Moskoe in the midway." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Between Lofoden and Moskoe, he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--These are the words of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Encyclopædia Britannica." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have had a good look at the whirl now, said the old man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The result was precisely what I had hoped it might be. As it is myself who now tell you this tale--as you see that I _did_ escape--and as you are already in possession of the mode in which this escape was effected, and must therefore anticipate all that I have farther to say--I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who dares? he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Massa Will." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And why not to-night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, if I had only known you were here! said Legrand," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What?--sunrise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense! no!--the bug. It is of a brilliant gold color--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well! I said, after contemplating it for some minutes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A death's-head! echoed Legrand--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps so, said I;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll, I don't know, said he, a little n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Jup, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, to speak de troof, massa, him not so berry well as mought be." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not well! I am truly sorry to hear it. What does he complain of?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the meaning of all this, Jup?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Him syfe, massa, and spade." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Him de syfe and de spade what Massa Will sis pon my buying for him in de town, and de debbil's own lot of money I had to gib ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, he replied, coloring violently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got it from him the next morning. Nothing should tempt me to part with that _scarabæus_. Do you know that Jupiter is quite right about it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In what w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sent for you, said he, in a grandiloquent tone, when I had completed my examination of the beetle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sent for you that I might have your counsel and assistance in furthering the views of Fate and of the bug--" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, massa, Jup climb any tree he ebber see in he life." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then up with you as soon as possible, for it will soon be too dark to see what we are about." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How far mus go up, massa?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which way mus go now, Massa Will?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep up the largest branch,--the one on this side," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How much fudder is got for go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How high up are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ebber so fur, replied the negro;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never mind the sky, but attend to what I say. Look down the tru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mos feerd for to ventur pon dis limb berry far--'tis dead limb putty much all de way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you say it was a _dead_ limb, Jupiter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, massa, him dead as de door-nail--done up for sartain--don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A mind disposed to lunacy would readily be led away by such suggestions, especially if chiming in with favorite preconceived ideas; and then I called to mind the poor fellow's speech about the beetle's being" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You scoundrel, said Legrand, hissing out the syllables from between his clenched teeth--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my golly, Massa Will! aint dis here my lef eye for sartain?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought so! I knew it! Hurrah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come! we must go back, said the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jupiter, said he, when we reached its foot," }, { "from": "human", "value": "De face was out, massa, so dat de crows could get at de eyes good, widout any trouble." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And dis all cum ob de goole-bug! de putty goole-bug! de poor little goole-bug, what I boosed in dat sabage kind ob style! Aint you shamed ob yourself, nigger?--answer me dat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You remember, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The scrap of paper, you mean," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have said that the scrap was parchment, and not paper. Parchment is durable--almost imperishable. Matters of little moment are rarely consigned to parchment; since, for the mere ordinary purposes of drawing or writing, it is not nearly so well adapted as paper. This reflection...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I now scrutinized the death's-head with care. Its outer edges--the edges of the drawing nearest the edge of the vellum--were far more _distinct_ than the others. It was clear that the action of the caloric had been imperfect or unequal. I immediately kindled a fire, and subjecte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said I, returning him the slip," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am as much in the dark as ever. Were all the jewels of Golconda awaiting me on my solution of this enigma, I am quite sure, that I should be unable to earn them." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I confess, replied Legrand," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mean, to punctuate it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something of that kind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even this division, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On this discovery I was so sanguine as to consider the enigma solved; for the phrase 'main branch, seventh limb, east side,' could refer only to the position of the skull on the tree, while 'shoot from the left eye of the death's-head' admitted, also, of but one interpretation, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this expedition to the 'Bishop's Hotel' I had been attended by Jupiter, who had no doubt observed, for some weeks past, the abstraction of my demeanor, and took especial care not to leave me alone. But on the next day, getting up very early, I contrived to give him the slip, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it is any point requiring reflection, observed Dupin, as he forebore to enkindle the wick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is another of your odd notions, said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling everything" }, { "from": "human", "value": "th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, but, G----, what of the purloined letter? I presume you have at last made up your mind that there is no such thing as overreaching the Minister?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Confound him, say I--yes; I made the re-examination, however, as Dupin suggested--but...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, said the Prefect, a little discomposed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am _perfectly_ willing to take advice, and to pay for it. I would _really_ give fifty thousand francs to any one who would aid me in the matter." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Parisian police, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So far as his labors extended?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Dupin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The measures adopted were not only the best of their kind, but carried...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I mean to say, continued Dupin, while I merely laughed at his last observations," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I remember his merriment well. I really thought he would have fallen into convulsions." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The disturbance in the street had been occasioned by the frantic behavior of a man with a musket. He had fired it among a crowd of women and children. It proved, however, to have been without ball, and the fellow was suffered to go his way as a lunatic or a drunkard. When he had...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lorimer Graham copy of the edition of 1845, containing marginal corrections in Poe's own hand. Poe revised his work frequently and sometimes extensively. The following notes show, in most cases, the dates both of the first publication and of subsequent ones. Familiarity with the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Visit of the Dead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To M----," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Romance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Conqueror Worm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Classic Myths." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in line 4 refers to Ulysses, as seems likely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Phæacian" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Assignation he says of the Marchesa Aphrodite," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her hair ... clustered round and round her classical head, in curls like those of the young hyacinth. The hair of Ligeia, in the story of that title, he calls" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and also the name of a beautiful maiden whom Cupid himself loved and wedded. Read the story in Gayley's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Classic Myths." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lalla Rookh, altered it slightly, and interpolated the clause," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Irene in 1831 and 1836, and as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Sleeper" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Pæan in 1831 and 1836, and as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lenore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Valley Nis, with an obscure allusion to a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Syriac Tale" }, { "from": "human", "value": "at best Means" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Manuscript Found in a Bottle, had taken the first prize in its class. It was republished several times, but not much altered. The usual spelling is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Colosseum." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chaldeans." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morella," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Visionary, afterward" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Assignation ; in 1839 in a magazine under the title" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To Ianthe in Heaven ; and several times afterward in magazines and in collections. It fits admirably into the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Mary, and in 1842 and 1843," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To One Departed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lines Written in an Album, addressed to Eliza White, a young daughter of the editor of the _Messenger_; in 1839 the same lines were addressed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To ----," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and find examples in other poems. As usu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Classic Myths" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thule was used by the ancients to indicate extreme northern regions; the Romans used the phrase" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ultima Thule" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Philosophy of Composition, in which Poe gives a remarkable account of the comp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Classic Myths." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ligeia, Poe speaks of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wretch," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Odyssey" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "an herb of reputed medicinal value. The allusion here is to Jeremiah viii.22:" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weir to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Fall of the House of Usher," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To Helen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "prophetic; from" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Consult Gayley's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Classic Myths." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To M.L. S-----," }, { "from": "human", "value": "David and Bethsabe," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An Enigma," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Classic Myths." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To F---- ," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Annie so frequently referred to in biographies of Poe, who also figures in his correspondence. Of all the women associated with Poe's later years (see Introduction, pages )," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Annie was the object of his most sincere and ardent friendship...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Raven," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and in line 32," }, { "from": "human", "value": "; point out other examples in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Raven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fall of the House of Usher" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "hence, born in the purple, royal. This term, or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had its author written nothing else, it would alone have been enough to stamp him as a man of genius, and a master of a classic style." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "sought? Is the main incident of the tale well adapted to produce this effect? Are the parts skillfull...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Prince ;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Belphegor is a satire on marriage. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was an eminent Swedish theologian and religious mystic. Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) was a great Danish poet and novelist; the work mentioned is one of his bes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vigils for the Dead according to the Choir of the Church of Mayence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mad Trist" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pharronida, a Heroic Poem." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, le bon temps, que ce siècle de fer!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! the good time, the age of iron." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eleonora, and in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eureka Poe speaks of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Natural History of Norway without acknowledgment, this in turn having been taken (with proper acknowledgment) from Ramus. The Britannica, in the ninth edition, after giving Poe credit for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whirlpool" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Death" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Decameron." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All in the Wrong," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cryptography," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive acumen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Murders in the Rue Morgue....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maxims ; Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) was a French essayist; see notes on Machiavelli and Campanella under" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Fall of the House of Usher," }, { "from": "human", "value": "a term in logic for a form of fallacious reasoning...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Virgil's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aeneid, VI, 126; Cranch's translation, VI, 161-162. Lake Avernus was, in classical mythology, the entrance to Hades. Consult Gayley's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Classic Myths." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, let us speak of our future, my Helen--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so you call that a joke?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nawe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What age are you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SHE'S MY GIRL!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "MAMA!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "COME ACROSS, OR I'LL..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WATCH ME HIT THAT SQUIRREL!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "ARE YOU STILL MAD?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One says that you will tak' train through thees summer, began the half-breed abruptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah lak' to go also." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said he slowly, between puffs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ontario." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Woods?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought you wasn't no tenderfoot. Ever hit the trail?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yo're a breed, ain't yo'? he inquired with refreshing directness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought so. He turned to Buckley, with the air of ignoring Lafond altogether." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That bars him," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's goin', if I have to take her by myself," } ]