Please help me understand a little more about the imp of the peverse what are the themes! i need this by tonight please!!Thanks

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2002

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i dont know

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2002

Starts out like an op-ed on "the evil i would not do I do" as the perverse impulse to cause harm to others and thus to oneself. three examples very much like Poe: prankish verbal traps(this story could be one), procrastination like writer's block until time ends the chance, and vertigo or the fascination impulse to plunge into an abyss. But suddenly, halfway through, we find this is the confession of a refelctive murderer who, like Raskalnikov in "Crime and Punishment", commits murder by fascination. The secret works out past his lips, he panics,draws attention and confesses. Note: he does NOT repent the murder or the harm done, but curiously examines the power and horror of the impulse as an "Imp". See "The Black cat" "The Tell-Tale Heart" for other expalnatory and unrepentant murderers who bring about their own downfall from impulse to deed to self-betrayal- all the same fascination that is counter and alter ego to one's welfare.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2002

Starts out like an op-ed on "the evil i would not do I do" as the perverse impulse to cause harm to others and thus to oneself. three examples very much like Poe: prankish verbal traps(this story could be one), procrastination like writer's block until time ends the chance, and vertigo or the fascination impulse to plunge into an abyss. But suddenly, halfway through, we find this is the confession of a refelctive murderer who, like Raskalnikov in "Crime and Punishment", commits murder by fascination. The secret works out past his lips, he panics,draws attention and confesses. Note: he does NOT repent the murder or the harm done, but curiously examines the power and horror of the impulse as an "Imp"(pun intended). See "The Black cat" "The Tell-Tale Heart" for other expalnatory and unrepentant murderers who bring about their own downfall from impulse to deed to self-betrayal- all the same fascination that is counter and alter ego to one's welfare.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2002