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#cc#music#edgar allen poe#the tell tale heart#the cask of amontillado#annabel lee#the fall of the house of usher#the bells poe#the purloined letter#the masque of the red death#the raven poem
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I finally made the thing!!
This is one of my favourite scenes from my favourite Holmes adaptation. Unfortunately there was very little content. I made some.
#Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson TV 1980#Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson#Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson TV#Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 1980#the purloined letter#Immortal's gifs#Sherlock Holmes#doctor watson#inspector lestrade#Geoffrey Whitehead#Donald Pickering#Patrick Newell#Sheldon Reynolds adaptations#“Arrest me then”
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#short story#short stories#the purloined letter#edgar allan poe#english language literature#american literature#19th century literature#book polls#completed polls#have you read this short fiction?
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Reading prose of Edgar Allan Poe for the first time is such a beautiful experience. Reading short stories in order they were arranged in in a publibaction gave me first Berenice, Ligeia, Morella, The Fall of The House of Usher and the likes one gets a strong feeling of prevalent themes of death, being buried alive, transcending death in one way or another, all wrapped in a dark, gloomy and misty atmosphere.
Later King Pest mixes this mood with vulgar comedy while The Angel of the Odd and The Spectacles are full on comedic (The Spectacles are one of the funniest pieces of fiction I have ever read).
Then you read The Gold-Bug, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt and The Purloined Letter all of which show you the skill of a brilliant mind (in the latter three cases mind of Monsieur Dupin) uncovering a mystery.
Something that surprised me the most was the sheer range of those stories, the mastery over both comedy and tragedy. To experience that range for the first time is to be overwhelmed by literary genius of the author.
#literature#edgar allan poe#gothic literature#ligeia#morella#the fall of the house of usher#king pest#the angel of the odd#the spectacles#the gold-bug#the murders in the rue morgue#the purloined letter#The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
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“The Purloined Letter” by Jacques Lacan
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Title: The Purloined Letter (1844)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Vote: 7/10
Excellent story about the solution to a crime which however would have benefited from a more concise explanation of the solution to the mystery that did not talk about philosophy and semantics. I certainly recognize that this story was an inspiration for an entire literary genre of which Poirot and Sherlock are just some representatives.
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What I Learned: "The Purloined Letter"
I was looking through the books I got while I was in college and found a collection of Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry and short stories. I’ve already read “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “A Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher” so I decided to start with one I hadn’t read yet. I might group some of the short stories together since they take less time to read than a whole…
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by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold
#original photographers#photographers on tumblr#airmail letter#british stamp#things from my parent's house#desk#inlay#purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe#still life
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XXYY Syndrome and Gender Identity: What is the Function of Myth?
A helpful comment about the correctly identified differences between neurosis and perversion can be found in Jacques Lacan's fourth seminar, The Object Relation (pg. 243):
I was (in all likelihood) born with a condition called XXYY syndrome, which not much is known about still. I've never gotten a karyotype of my cells taken in my whole life, but I present virtually all of the physical characteristics that are caused by the condition (i.e. tall stature, spine growth problems, crooked fingers, testosterone deficiency), as well as most of the psychological symptoms as well (i.e. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, and autism spectrum disorder). These problems are caused by extra copies of both the X and Y sex chromosomes found in a person's cellular nuclei. This condition, XXYY, results in a person who is genotypically "male", and who also is not considered genuinely "intersex". (Source: https://genetic.org/what-is-xxyy-syndrome/)
Due to the androgynous body shape which results from my irregular gene expression, in high school especially, I used to think I was basically intersex. But recently I found out that this isn't (scientifically) the case, because I have typical and "dimorphic" male genitalia, both functioning testicles and an ordinary penis. I remember I had to think about the fact that I was never truly Intersex for a minute before I could really fathom it or accept it. In any case, this genetic condition of XXYY syndrome leaves me in a sexually ambiguous in-between position of being both non-intersex and maybe what you'd call "quasi-intersex", although it would still be a misnomer, or incorrect to even say that I am even indirectly somehow "intersex", because of its medical definition. I think there are ultimately good reasons for this definition being more on the strict side.
Moving forward now. In terms of the vocabulary used in discussions of transgender topics, I would probably be considered assigned-male-at-birth, "non-binary" formally speaking, and maybe only "quasi-cisgender", or something like that. This is because in terms of "transitioning", as it is called, in the transition to a different sexual or gender identity, I am neither arriving at the destination of a non-binary gender identity from the originary body image of an assigned-male-at-birth person with XY sex chromosomes, nor from the originary body image of an assigned-female-at-birth person with XX sex chromosomes. So I am essentially both non-dimorphic and non-intersex.
In relation to the all-important analysis of mathematical series obtained by the probability of coin-flips used in Jacques Lacan's "Seminar on the Purloined Letter", you could organize this schema along the lines of the pluses and minuses which correspond to heads and tails:
(+++): assigned-male-at-birth, dimorphic [always non-intersex], cisgender
(–––): assigned-female-at-birth, intersex [always non-dimorphic], transgender
As you can probably figure out from looking closely, in my case of having XXYY syndrome, the two pairs of opposites for the second coin-flip variable in the series, dimorphic and intersex, or rather, and more correctly, non-dimorphic and non-intersex, are not mutually exclusive antonyms.
Dimorphic and non-dimorphic refer respectively to typical and atypical human body images which are determined by their cellular gene expression: either by XY and XX sex chromosomes in the cells' nuclei, or (in the case of non-dimorphic) by something else which deviates from this norm, such as intersexuality, XXY syndrome, or XXYY syndrome. Or at least that is how I am defining them for my purposes here, anyway.
Intersex by itself, however, refers to conditions of having sexually "ambiguous" genitalia in the way the person's genitala are physiologically structured. "Non-intersex", if it is determined to be anything, is therefore anything else which does not fall into this category of having physiologically ambiguous genitalia.
Therefore, I am both non-dimorphic and non-intersex. But, if you look above, there is no coin-flip result in the series I (arbitrarily and seemingly patriarchally) listed which are capable of expressing this possibility. I am always the bearer of a "male" body image without a cognizable (sexual) outcome. Let's say, however, we represent this possibility with a different symbol than a plus or a minus sign, such as "~", which in the field of semiotics is pronounced "other", as in "~S" = "other sign". The series describing my identity would be: (+~?).
The question mark "?" here stands for the undefined possibility of somehow being neither transgender nor cisgender even whenever one is determined genotypically male after zygosis (or is assigned-male-at-birth). This kind of person also has a body image which is non-dimorphic, or non-binary, upon approaching pubescence, even though their bodies by themselves are already determined as "male". There is essentially no destination of a cognizable sexual identity to transition to, in such a case, except for maybe "cisgender" itself. This situation presents a rather rare paradox: "cisgender" is a category determined a priori by someone's assigned sex in the first place, but it is one which also categorically excludes the very concept of "transitioning" (to a different gender).
So, in my specific case, I am both fundamentally non-binary and "quasi-cisgender" (a term I had to make up), because I mostly choose to identify with my assigned sex, even though my body image is very highly non-dimorphic: I always have both a large pelvis and slight gynecomastia, in addition to spine growth irregularities that physically cause me to display a posture of permanent slouching.
My relationship, via sexual positioning, to the concept of perversion is very unique because of this. The negative of "~", or "other", is neither "+" nor "–". It has no possible denotation. The effect this has on the idea in psychoanalysis of a subject's personal mythos, or its collective relationship to fiction, myth, and truth, is that a "singular relation to truth" preemptively subverts the fact that "truth has a structure, so to speak, of fiction" by making this functioning the whole premise of the chain of modifications which may cohere into a singular narrative. Narrative "may be said to be 'atemporal'. One might also try to define its structure with respect to the site it defines. One can take it in its literary form, which quite strikingly shares some kinship with poetic creation while at the same time being very distinct from it, in the sense that myth is linked to certain constants that are absolutely not submitted to subjective invention. It is also something which would allow us to indicate the problems it poses." (pg. 245).
For bearers of XXYY syndrome, the relationship to perversion, as the negative of neurosis, maybe is what comes to place the highest emphasis of all on this last quality which may define narratives, namely, their capacity to indicate their own internal contradictions as they coincide or combine with the structures of myth and of fiction. This, in my view, is largely a clash between the phallic and superego drives. If the unbearable anxiety of having a non-dimorphic body image is to ever be forgotten, it is only in the brutally direct way in which perversion may denigrate genitality, the idea that identification with the father is more of a plaything than an inherited artifact as it is found in the relationship of personal sexuality to the self-arrogated appropriations of scientific and/or academic knowledge.
Myth, for this (my) sexual positioning of XXYY, is perhaps always an alienated, self-modifying object of the understanding which does not often converge with any feelings of indebtedness to the social collectivity. Already, in other more normative sexual positionings (those excluding sex chromosome anomalies), perversion shows humans, in plenty of given instances by its relationship to myths, the underlying truth about an alienated object of the understanding, a truth which opens up a relative quantization of pleasure and enjoyment within the mental dimensions of (what I might call) fiction-production. But, for irregularities of sexual positioning caused by the chromosomal irregularities of XXYY syndrome, perversion is constantly negating the whole field of reality for the subject's enjoyment, because nothing about his/her/their real sex belongs in the structure of myth itself.
#lacanian psychoanalysis#structure of myth#seminar on the purloined letter#jacques lacan#the object relation#intersex#lgbtqplus#theory of sexuality
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I love it when I'm doing research and sources start referencing sources I've already read. Makes me feel like I'm winning some sort of game
#was skimming through satoru saito's detective fiction and the rise of the japanese novel 1880-1930 and stopped to read a section#about stories within stories and detective fiction as parody and stuff#and saw a footnote that said to read mark silver's purloined letters#which i've already read and found interesting#hooray yippee etc.#also saito's book makes a lot of comparisons between early japanese novels and dostoevsky's crime and punishment#and that's just so interesting to me#also i had to stop and write down a couple quotes because my bsd brain caught onto them#the most notable one is that apparently natsume souseki thought that detectives were like the pinnacle of evil#and yet basically pioneered their usage as narrative devices#well anyway yeah#genuinely have no idea where i'm going with my paper#at this point i feel like i'm just reading all these sources for fun and not for actual research purposes#i have no idea what argument i could possibly make about decagon house that involves any of this stuff#decagon house fans please suggest ideas i beg#.txt#sure hope my professor doesn't find these posts#i feel like she's definitely a tumblr user
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I guess I'm doing a really bad live blog of The Purloined Letter now.
Omg, they actually went to a party!
Uhh, is the guy alive? I think he's alive
Holmes just being completely chill to confuse Lestrade but once Watson says he's also confused the man just sobers up and explains :D
This is giving baker street nursemaids vibes in terms of plot
Of course Holmes sees the men :)
Omg WHAT? Sir, WHAT do you mean he'll remind me of that??
Holmes, cool as a cucumber, walking in to bold-faced lie the the murderous theif guy holding him at gunpoint
Okay, what did you think the guy with the noose was about to do? Hang you?
Holmes just sitting in the chair in the corner of the dude's room when he gets back, all cryptid-like.
"It doesn't take a master theif to break that lock"
Holmes just smoking into that guy's face like: yes, I AM in charge here. Good noticing :D
WTH, HOLMES!! YOU GOT HIM TO GIVE YOU THE LETTER AND A CONFESSION TOO?
Ahaha, blackmailer and henchman 1 just being like: bro, if I was gonna kill u I would have done it by now
blackmailer just being like: what do you mean you gave it to a friend? ... buddy Sherlock Holmes is not your friend
Blackmailer just being like: wth else did you give him? A CONFESSION? Oml u did.
Henchman 1 choking theif guy out
Watson: hmm, Holmes there are some sinister guys coming up to our flat.
Holmes: eh, I expected they would
Blackmailer: hey, give me the letter and the confession
Holmes: no
Blackmailer being one of the only people who actually realise that Holmes will burn worlds for Watson: Henchman 1 has your partner at gunpoint, he'll shoot him nonfatally if u don't give me what I want *fully expects not to have to threaten Watson further* *is right*
Watson: *quite chill about all of this* he's bluffing
Holmes who has a plan but mainly doesn't want to risk Watson being shot: no, he's not.
Holmes: *gives over both documents*
Holmes after blackmailer and henchman 1 leave: *secret smile he keeps just to smile conspiratorially at Watson*
Lestrade: *slipping out of the famous cupboard downstairs after those guys have left and going into 221b*
Wait, so nobody's gonna catch these guysyet? What is your plan Holmes?
Holmes and Watson why are you just smirking in the background while the guy reads out blackmail in parliament?
Wait you what? U switched the letters? He's reading out his own CONFESSION? Brilliant!
Omg, I need to make a gif.
The last scene:
Holmes: I opened the safe and borrowed the seal :)
Lestrade: You robbed his safe!
Holmes, the sassist man on the planet: alright, arrest me then :)
Lestrade in the most disappointed voice ever: I don't suppose he's gonna press charges :(
Watson, watching the exchange: *sips tea in the same way someone might get out popcorn a century later* :D
#1988 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson#Live blog#I guess#Sherlock Holmes#dr john watson#inspector lestrade#The Purloined Letter#Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
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nevermore artists of tumblr. please. we need to see an ever after high x nevermore collaboration. some ideas:
Lenore- Raven Queen
Eulalie- Maddie Hatter
Berenice- Kitty Cheshire
Ada- Blondie Lockes or Faybelle Thorn
Annabel Lee- Darling Charming
Montresor- Daring Charming or Sparrow Hood
Will- Dexter Charming
Pluto- Hopper Croakington
Duke- Alistair Wonderland
Morella- C.A. Cupid
Merry and Mourn- narrators
Prospero- Apple White or Red Knight
please. i will pay you with my firstborn child this is a need
credits to my dear friends of the purloined letter discord server they're epic
#nevermore#nevermore webcomic#nevermore webtoon#annabel lee whitlock#nevermore eulalie#nevermore pluto#pluto nevermore#duke nevermore#annabel lee nevermore#nevermore prospero#prospero nevermore#annabel lee x lenore#nevermore montresor#montresor nevermore#ada nevermore#eulalie nevermore#will nevermore#nevermore montressor#nevermore ada#nevermore will#nevermore lenore#nevermore academy#nevermore annabel lee#lenore nevermore#lenore vandernacht#artists of tumblr
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Prism: I'm gonna become a book thief. Folio filcher. Parchment pilferer.
FCG: A literary larcenist?
Prism: Yeah! That's right, when I'm done reading them, I'm gonna set them on fire!
Laudna: No, that's an arsonist.
Prism: Oh.
FCG: Maybe you need to read some more books.
Deanna: We got to steal you a thesaurus, baby girl.
— Critical Role C3E64: "Reunited"
Humble suggestions for the Criminal Nerd:
bestiary burglar
codex cracker
compendium cribber
document desperado
grimoire grabber
hardcover heister
leaf lifter
letter looter
library liberator
manuscript moocher
octavo outlaw
page pincher
paper plunderer
paperback purloiner
paragraph picker
scroll snagger
sexto snatcher
spellbook swiper
tome taker
vellum villain
volume varlet
BONUS: anthologist
Some of these would also be formed as *clears throat* exocentric verb-noun compound agent nouns (like "one who picks pockets" is a pickpocket, rather than a "pocket-picker") : liftleaf, lootletter, pinchpage, snagscroll. And these could also be proper nouns, family names (for a certain kind of family, heh) or nicknames or criminal aliases or even tiefling virtue names.
#critical role#cr spoilers#aabria iyengar#emily axford#sam riegel#deanna leimert#fcg#laudna#prism grimpoppy#marisha ray#words of the trade#trs#thief#books
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CANNOT SLEEP in middle of the night and purloined phone from couch under my mom's not at all watchful nose and later she will probably pick my lock(yes literally we have those weird dot locks you can pick with a deconstructed pen or crocheting needle but NOT an actual fuckint key) and steal please send microwave related clusters of letters
Microwabale yoshi to keep you company in these trying times
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