This is how I imagine a drunk, boorish Poe on a bad night!įor next week, let's have some gory fun with the mesmerism topic and read the short story The Facts in the Case of M. No matter what the subject, they will jump in and go off (sometimes in obvious wrong directions) until they have killed the conversation. Poe takes him to witness a man held at the door of death by hypnotism and, when the man begs to be released so he can die, he turns into a pile of maggots. I always think of him as that irritating friend (we all have one unless, god forbid, you are that person!) who always acts like they know everything about anything. In the BBC docudrama Dickens, author Charles Dickens meets a fictionalized Poe on his tour of the United States. This was incredibly tiresome but so incredibly Poe. let's leave it to philosophers to debate what Poe states is true about the nature of God and man. Second, a profile of reader receptivity is offered, and an analogy is established between the mesmeric sciences and an altered-state-of-consciousness effect due to artistic will or control.
Thus begins a long and detailed discourse comparing matter and mind and well. An earlier, much milder attempt at this subject had appeared in Tales (1845) under the title Mesmeric Revelation. First, the style of Poe’s Mesmeric Revelation is shown to focus on the equivalence of the rational and the nonrational. He has a friend that he has been mesmerizing that is very ill (probably with tuberculosis) who thinks he has insight into the mystery of God and wants Poe to mesmerize him and ask some questions about God and the soul while he has access to the other plane. Poe, or the narrator "P", postulates that a person who has been mesmerized multiple times is able to sense things from another plane. I'm having major internet issues and it doesn't stay up for any reasonable amount of time so this will be a quick analysis, hopefully with a window of connectivity to get it out to my fine readers. The short story I chose for this week's Poe Fridays is Mesmeric Revelation.
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