Review of “The Business Man” (1840)

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Edgar Allan Poe (writer).

Read in 2022.

A man gifted with a strong sense of order and method by a bump on the head progresses through a series of eight occupations.

The best of Poe’s paradoxical juxtapositions of dignified narration with undignified contents.

References here: “Diddling” (1843), “The Search: Part 2” (1994).

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