Thursday, March 31, 2005

Episode 3


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Welcome to Poe Blog w/Peter Francis.

"Hmmm...This is starting to sound like some people I know."

-Peter Francis

Promethean Books presents

Episode Three of

"DIDDLING:

Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"

(continued from March 13th)

Ingenuity:- Your diddler is ingenious. He has constructiveness large. He understands plot. He invents and circumvents. Were he not Alexander he would be Diogenes. Were he not a diddler, he would be a maker of patent rat traps or an angler for trout.

Audacity:- Your diddler is audacious. -He is a bold man. He carries the war into Africa. He conquers all by assault. He would not fear the daggers of the Frey Herren. With a little more prudence Dick Turpin would have made a good diddler; with a trifle less blarney, Daniel O'Connell; with a pound or two more brains, Charles the twelfth.

Nonchalance:- Your diddler is nonchalant. He is not at all nervous. He never had any nerves. He is never seduced into a flurry. He is never put out- unless put out of doors. He is cool- cool as a cucumber. He is calm- "calm as a smile from Lady Bury." He is easy- easy as an old glove, or the damsels of ancient Baiae.

(to be continued)
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