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	The Purloined Letter. Poe, Edgar Allan. 1917. Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher & The Purloined Letter. ...
		Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Purloined Letter.
		A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example.
		These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the streets, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
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	On the Purloined Letter
		Love letter or conspiratorial letter, letter of betrayal or letter of mission, letter of summons or letter of distress, we are assured of but one thing: the Queen muse not bring it to the knowledge of her lord and master.
		From then on, to whatever vicissitudes the Queen may choose to subject the letter, it remains that the letter is the symbol of a pact and that, even should the recipient not assume the pact, the existence of the letter situates her in a symbolic chain foreign to the one which constitutes her faith.
		This oddity of a letter marked with the recipient's stamp is all the more striking in its conception, since, though forcefully articulated in the text, it is not even mentioned by Dupin in the discussion he devotes to the identification of the letter.
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	The Purloined Letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was in the Duchess’ room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance.
		The ability to produce the letter at a moment’s notice is almost as important as possession of the letter itself.
		While a seemingly simple story, "The Purloined Letter" opens up all sorts of discussions regarding the taking of power, the position of the monarch in 19th Century society, and the treatment of women at that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Purloined_Letter (1136 words)

	THE PURLOINED LETTER by E. A. Poe (1845) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The document in question --a letter, to be frank --had been received by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir.
		In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals,) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings; imitating the D-- cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.
		She has now him in hers; since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was.
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	The Purloined Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The document in question -- a letter, to be frank -- had been received by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir.
		You will now understand what I mean in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden anywhere within the limits of the Prefect's examination -- in other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the Prefect -- its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question.
		In the meantime I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings -- imitating the D -- -- cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.
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	Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Study Guide / Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
		It is not a murder or assassination, but merely an important letter has been stolen from a female "royal personage," presumably the Queen, and she is now being flmailed lest the letter will fall into her enemies' hands.
		She was initially reading the letter at her palace, when the person who the letter was about entered her room, and she hurriedly put it down; yet Minister D-- also went to visit her, seeing the letter lying out in her room, and decided to casually steal it.
		Although it was different than the letter than the Prefect had originally described, the fact that it was in such an obvious place and so out of place compared to the relative cleanliness of his apartment, made Dupin confident that this was the prize which he had been seeking.
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	The Purloined Letter Summary & Essays - Edgar Allan Poe
		Although he is primarily known for his horror stories, Poe also wrote a series of what he called, ‘‘tales of ratiocination,’’ which helped define the conventions used in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories, and which helped influence the development of the modern mystery.
		As with the other stories that feature C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous detective protagonist, ‘‘The Purloined Letter’’ emphasizes the use of deductive reasoning—a specific type of logic that examines all factors in a case objectively— to solve mysteries that have stumped others.
		In the end, the police are unsuccessful in finding the letter because the thief has hidden it in the most unexpected place—right under their noses.
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	Whiskey Bar: Letter Opener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Evidence seems to be accumulating that the celebrated letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri (bin Ladin's deputy) to the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- which the corporate media have been gobbling up like a dog in a meatball factory -- is actually what Al Qaeda claims it is: a fake.
		But when you put the possibly phony letter together with the probably phony bomb threat, and the administration's dire need to scrape the last few spoonfuls of public support out of Shrub's terrorism mojo jar, you do have to wonder who is fooling whom here.
		The July 9 dated letter, which U.S. officials say was written by al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, appears near its close to urge the Iraq insurgent leader to send greetings to himself if visiting the Iraqi city of Falluja.
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	The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe
		You will now understand what I meant in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden any where within the limits of the Prefect's examination - in other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the Prefect - its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question.
		In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals,) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings - imitating the D-- cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.
		She has now him in hers - since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was.
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	MathFiction: The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
		The Prefect of Paris police explains a very delicate situation to Dupin, involving a royal letter whose possession grants its bearer great powers, and whose rightful owner is unable to publicly seek redress.
		The thief is known, and it is known he keeps the letter handy, yet eighteen months of the most assiduous searching of the thief's residence has failed to locate it.
		A lenghty and deep discussion of the mathematical themes in "The Purloined Letter" can be found in John T. Irwin's "The Mystery to a Solution - Poe, Borges and the Analytic Detective Story" (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
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	Seminar on The Purloined Letter
		Cut a letter in small pieces, and it remains the letter it is–and this in a completely different sense than Gestalttheorie would account for with the dormant vitalism informing its notion of the whole.
		To purloin, says the Oxford dictionary, is an Anglo-French word, that is: composed of the prefix pur-, found in purpose, purchase, purport, and of the Old French word: loing, loigner, longé.
		We recognize in the first element the Latin pro-, as opposed to ante, insofar as it presupposes a rear in front of which it is borne, possibly as its warrant, indeed even as its pledge (whereas ante goes forth to confront what it encounters).
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	The Purloined Letter Page 1
		The document in question --- a letter, to be frank --- had been received by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir.
		After a hurried and vain endeavor to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.
		The minister decamped; leaving his own letter --- one of no importance --- upon the table."
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	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		The document in question — a letter, to be frank — had been received by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir.
		You will now understand what I meant in suggesting that, had the purloined letter been hidden any where within the limits of the Prefect's examination — in other words, had the principle of its concealment been comprehended within the principles of the Prefect — its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question.
		She has now him in hers — since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was.
	www.eapoe.org /works/tales/plttrb.htm (5774 words)

	Today's Purloined Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Or, as in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Case of the Purloined Letter," does the truth of the of the matter lie, ultimately, in plain sight, rather than any of the murky hiding-places commonly worrying the usual official investigators?
		To add one Poe metaphor to another, the answer is, that the author of the offending policy in question, is not a human suspect, but what Britain's Thomas Huxley defined as a large, sexually depraved monkey of Huxley's own fabrication, Herbert George Wells.
		It was also the putative "great peace-lover" Russell, who took the lead, at the close of World War II, in proposing the use of nuclear preventive war as a strategy of terror for bringing about world government.
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	house of usher - Your Best House Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	The Purloined Letter
		Reading Poe¡¦s ¡§The Purloined Letter¡¨ The central concern in reading Poe¡¦s ¡§The Purloined Letter¡¨ lies in the very purloined letter in question: how it is displaced from its assigned origin and, since ¡§a letter always arrives at its destination¡¨ as Lacan believes, how it must be redirected back to its proper end.
		The purloined letter might then be seen as the ¡§center¡¨ of the story ¡§The Purloined Letter,¡¨ and the whole narrative a structure in search of its missing center.
		This is the question I would like to discuss.
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	The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe : Summary Explanation Meaning Overview
		The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe : Summary Explanation Meaning Overview
		Summary, overview, explanation, meaning, description, of The Purloined Letter
		AT Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18--, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisieme, No. 33, Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Germain.
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	ipedia.com: The Purloined Letter Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"The Purloined Letter" is one of Edgar Allan Poe 's simplest detective stories.
		Spoiler warning: Plot, ending, or solution details follow.
		It turns out to be hidden in plain sight, in the 19th century equivalent of a modern in-box!
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	The Purloined Letter
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