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of fact and fiction,
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then dear Emily will die.
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Your only hope is to imagine a way to save her.
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I dare you to try to conceive of the painstaking care
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I have taken to secure her,
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and the elegant means leading inexorably to her end.
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Are you up to the task, Mr. Poe?
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Are you even capable of imagining
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the means to save your beloved's life?
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Or shall this tale end as all your stories do,
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With madness, sin and horror,
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the soul of the plot?