Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
How adorable, Aimée!
I recently listened to some old school horror in audiobook form. So...this Cask of Amontillado -- strange narrative. I mean, the story goes "I took him downstairs and walled him in." I checked the original text to see if something had been lost, but no. That seems to be it. Is this a famous and well-thought of story?
The story is better if a cat gets accidentally walled in too. Um... what's the cat's name... Hermes? Pluto?
eta: Pluto [link]
"The Black Cat" by Poe.
I read it in 7th or 8th grade.... I think it's "classic"?
An avi file is video, right? Does anyone know where I can get my hands on mp3 of the original Schoolhouse Rock stuff?
Is this a famous and well-thought of story?
It is famous - probably for playing on the walled-in, buried alive fears. I don't know if it's well regarded, but many horror stories linger in that genre's canon because they linger in the imagination rather than because they are well made. It's no "Yellow Wallpaper" or "Monkey's Paw" though.
Happy bithday, amych! I hope you get treats and coffee and more cat snuggling, and presents and LUV and cheese and fantastic meals and new gear and sumptuous bounties of all sorts.
We read "The Cask of Amontillado" in 10th grade - American lit. IIRC, Poe is known for believing that a short story should have one efffect that everything is in aid of - usually horror. My textbook suggested that for this story, the one effect might be irony.
At least the Black Cat has a kicker. There's no surprise in Cask. It's pretty obvious Fortunato is not long for this world, and the method of disposal isn't noteworthy.
Damn those classics...
Well, the plot of the Tell-Tale Heart goes, "So I killed him and buried him under the floor. And surprisingly, I felt guilty and got caught. The end." Poe's not so much about the clever plots.
At least there was guilt! Surprise! Being caught!
t, I'm stuck on (well, I'm stuck on 5 out of 8 of the questions, but the first is):
Let A be the set of numbers in (3/5,2/3) that have decimal expansions containing only finitely many zeros and sixes after the decimal point and no other integer. Find the least upper bound of A. (prove your answer)
What was the Poe (I think) story where the guy kills someone, and then becomes obsessed wiping his fingerprints off every object in the house?