Not Poe -- more the Scottish doppleganger business.
Hogg does it nastier (tho' admitedly at greater length) in
Memoirs&Confessions. [The editor's preface ...]
Robin
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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Book Review- Moby Dick
> Oh, and check out "The Man of Crowds," in French if you must. Not what we
> tend to think of as a Poe story.
>
> Mark
>
> At 10:23 AM 8/11/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >> If Baudelaire had been from the
> >> American south he might have written this book.
> >
> >Poe sounds better in Baudelaire's (or was it Mallarme's?) translation.
> >
> >Buy their fruits -- Lovecraft.
> >
> >Robin Hamilton
> >
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