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He here closed the book and leaned forward in the chair, placing himself accurately
in the position which I had occupied at the moment of beholding "the monster."
"Ah, here it is," he presently exclaimed- "it is reascending the face of the hill, and a very
remarkable looking creature I admit it to be. Still, it is by no means so large or so distant as you
imagined it,- for the fact is that, as it wriggles its way up this thread, which some spider has wrought
along the window-sash, I find it to be about the sixteenth of an inch in its extreme length,
and also about the sixteenth of an inch distant from the pupil of my eye."
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Was it possible to be on-topic without using any sphinx whatsoever, not
even a butterfly, and not even the word in the text? Well it was, once
one gets the spirit behind the Poe's tale.
I browsed through a few summaries of the story, but they were not actually
shorter than the tale itself. Its very last paragraph happens to be
a perfect
description box. My "skills"
in English would have never done better than that.
Simply put, what you could consider as a terrifying monster may be only...
...a fly in your glasses.
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