The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Dark Saint Alaick · 30-04-2012, 01:17 AM

The Angel Of The Odd

By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

[From The Columbian Magazine, October, 1844]

It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit, and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's Leonidas, Wilkie's Epigoniad, Lamartine's Pilgrimage, Barlow's Columbiad, Tuckerman's Sicily, and Griswold's Curiosities, I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid.

30-04-2012, 01:17 AM	#11
Dark Saint Alaick Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Sherman Oaks (LA-CA-USA) Posts: 51,823 Rep Power: 182	Re: The Best American Humorous Short Stories *The Angel Of The Odd* *By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)* *[From The Columbian Magazine, October, 1844]* It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit, and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's Leonidas, Wilkie's Epigoniad, Lamartine's Pilgrimage, Barlow's Columbiad, Tuckerman's Sicily, and Griswold's Curiosities, I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid. __________________ दूसरों से ऐसा व्यवहार कतई मत करो, जैसा तुम स्वयं से किया जाना पसंद नहीं करोगे ! - प्रभु यीशु