I love the idea of Poe tormenting schoolboys with baroque pedantry. There are moments in the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (a book I love) when his disquisitio

I love the idea of Poe tormenting schoolboys with baroque pedantry. There are moments in the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (a book I love) when his disquisition on some nautical matter achieves a kind of sublime boringness.