<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527625" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mysteries</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All last night I kept speaking in this<br>archaic language, because I had been reading<br>Poe and thinking about him. I read 'The Murders<br>in the Rue Morgue' which is supposedly the first<br>detective story. Who dun it? I wondered.<br>It turns out an orangutan was the murderer.<br>It looks to me like the detective story genre got off<br>to a pretty ridiculous start. I used to visit<br>Poe's house in the Bronx. I used to think,<br>God, Poe must have been a midget. Everything<br>is so small. Poe died in Baltimore and I can see why.<br>In Baltimore, all the people are very big and sincere.<br>During dinner last night, I told Doug and Susan<br>about 'Murders in the Rue Morgue.' I said I hadn't<br>finished it yet, but it looked like the murderer<br>was going to turn out to be an orangutan, unless<br>the plot took a surprising new twist. Then Doug<br>suggested that he and I collaborate<br>on a series of detective stories in which<br>the murderer is always an orangutan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[from The Great Indoors, Story Line Press, 1995]<br>http://www.terencewinch.com</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+Winch">Terence Winch</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527625" data-title="Mysteries de Terence Winch" data-description="All last night I kept speaking in this archaic language, because I had been reading Poe and thinking about him. I read 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' which is supposedly the first detective story. Who dun it? I wondered. It turns out an orangutan..."></div> </div> </div>

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