...Usher's consciousness, the narrator begins to identify with it. Observing Usher constantly, he says that "It was no wonder that his condition terrified - that...of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions" (2:4ii). In "The Man of the Crowd," the identification of the narrator with the old man is equally...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...thought he was laboring to divulge some oppressive secret, and yet struggled for the necessary courage. I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...sound. It was no wonder that his condition terrified me. I felt creeping upon me, by slow degrees, the wild influences of his own fantastic, yet impressive...

...At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for8 I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially,b upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the 1placing...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...attitude of the profoundest attention, as if listening to 12Trestles. some imaginary sound. It was no wonder that his condition terrified — that it infected...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...the same time, he reports that Usher's condition not only "terrified" but "infected" him: "I felt it creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees, the...of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions" (P&T, 330-331). For all his power over the narrator, Usher is himself susceptible to the influence...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for 1 beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...