Literature has a strange ability to force an individual to look introspectively at their own existence and to question their own qualities - to self-evaluate. ... academy? Oh, gigantic paradox, too utterly monstrous for solution! This symbolism of inconsistencies that are obvious to all who are present is a cause for rebellion and insolence on the part of Wilson. Further Poe writes in description of his childhood school, "But the house! --how quaint an old building was this! -- to me how ... fur; how rare, how extravagantly costly, I shall not venture to say... it was with an astonishment n...

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