"These fellows, knowing the extravagant gullibility of the age, set their wits to work in the imagination of improbable possibilities β of odd accidents, as they term them; but to a reflecting intellect (like mine," I added, in parenthesis, putting my forefinger unconsciously to the side of my nose,) "to a contemplative understanding such as I myself possess, it seems evident at once that the marvelous increase of late in these 'odd accidents' is by far the oddest accident of all. For my own part, I intend to believe nothing henceforward that has anything of the 'singular' about it."
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Edgar Allan Poe
1809 β 1849
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
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