Quote#Wisdom
Since the interest of an analysis or reconstruction, such as I have…
Quote byEdgar Allan Poe · 1809–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Philosophy of Composition (1846), p.115 Line 34.
English (original)
since the interest of an analysis or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analysed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on my part to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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