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kairos12

(13,469 posts) Sun Jan 11, 2026, 01:10 PM 5 hrs ago

Prophetic Edgar Allan Poe

"It is an evil growing out of republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which with he keeps it."

"The Philosophy of Furniture," Burton's Gentlemen Magazine, May 1840

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Prophetic Edgar Allan Poe (Original Post) kairos12 5 hrs ago OP

Talking about a type. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #1

Kid Berwyn

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1. Talking about a type.

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Sun Jan 11, 2026, 01:18 PM

5 hrs ago

ETA: Poe’s essay…

https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philfurn.htm

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