Virginia Heffernan: Trump's 'Tell-Tale Letter': There's a barking lunatic in the White House
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 18, 2019
3 minutes
True! - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them.
So begins Edgar Allan Poe's marvelously twisted 1843 short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which a madman recounts murdering a neighbor, burying the dismembered body and blurting out a confession to the police.
The narrator, all the while, insists he is utterly sane. Or more than sane. Shrewd. A stable genius. Perfect. To prove his point,
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