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Quotation from Tales (Selection) by Edgar Allan Poe
“The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.”
Tales (Selection), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text)
The first sentence of the essay on analysis that introduces Dupin and the first detective story.
Citation: "The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis." — Edgar Allan Poe, Tales (Selection), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text). (id poe-tales-q1)
Portrait: Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off, Unknown author Unknown author ; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
