Friday, October 25, 2024
Politics
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), "Some Words with a Mummy," Poetry and Tales (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 805-821 (at 812):
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Mr. Gliddon, at one period, for example, could not make the Egyptian comprehend the term “politics,” until he sketched upon the wall, with a bit of charcoal, a little carbuncle-nosed gentleman, out at elbows, standing upon a stump, with his left leg drawn back, his right arm thrown forward, with the fist shut, the eyes rolled up toward Heaven, and the mouth open at an angle of ninety degrees.
