I love me some Poe:
Opening paragraphs of The Cask of Amontillado
Opening paragraphs of The Cask of Amontillado
Quote:The thousand injuries of Fortunado I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult I vowed
revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.
At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was
resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when
the avenger overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to
him who as done the wrong.
It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good-will. I
continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought
of his immolation.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.