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Okay. with headphones. The heart doesn't lie.

That's not to say it doesn't try.

Look around this house, and you will find nothing to contest its cleanliness.

Not even a vulture's eye could spot something wrong,

and yet buried beneath the paint and polish,

condemnable conceptions.

Despite the best inventions, the most devious intentions stir within the foundations of the soul,

a cavity.

The rot is not always seen, but it's often felt beating, sinking, groaning, like a loose floorboard.

In this story, you will put to scale two pounds of flesh.

The all-suspecting eye and the Tell-Tale Heart.

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am. But why will you say that I am

the disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the

sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven and in earth. I heard many things in hell.

How then am I mad? Harken and observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

Object there was none. Passion, there was none.

I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold,

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