Poe, Edgar Allen / 2008-06-21 00:00:00
1850
THE SPECTACLES
by Edgar Allen Poe
SPECTACLES
MANY years ago, it was the fashion to ridicule the idea of "love
at first sight;" but those who think, not less than those who feel
deeply, have always advocated its existence. Modern discoveries,
indeed, in what may be termed ethical magnetism or magnetoesthetics,
render it probable that the most natural, and, consequently, the
truest and most intense of the human affections are those which
arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy- in a word, that the
brightest and most enduring of the psychal fetters are those which are
riveted by a glance. The confession I am about to make will add
another to the already almost innumerable instances of the truth of
the position.
My story requires that I should be somewhat minute. I am still a
very young man- not yet twenty-two years of age. My name, at
present, is a very usual and rather plebeian one- Simpson. I say "at
present;" for it is only lately that I have been so called- having
legislatively adopted this surname within the last year in order to
receive a large inheritance left me by a distant male relative,
Adolphus Simpson, Esq.
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