Word: valdemar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edgar Allan Poe was the first great master of the new art of the uncanny. In The Telltale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, he made the horror story a respectable literary form. But only a handful of literary terrorists (Hawthorne, James, Chekhov, Gogol) wrote tales as eerily disturbing as Poe's. Only one (Franz Kafka) found the ladder to a deeper gallery of madness...
...taught were limited to three for a long time: purges, enemas and bleedings. Charles Bouvard, for example, the physician of Louis VIII, gave him in one year forty-seven bleedings, two hundred and twelve enemas and two hundred and fifteen purges. As a result, he was made a noble. Valdemar Paradise Assistant Professor of Sociology Northern Essex Community College