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-	:There are certain [[theme]]s of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely [[horrible]] for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. They are with propriety handled only when the severity and majesty of Truth sanctify and sustain them. We thrill, for example, with the most intense of "[[pleasurable pain]]" over the accounts of the [[Passage of the Beresina]], of the [[Earthquake at Lisbon]], of the [[Plague at London]], of the [[Massacre of St. Bartholomew]], or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the [[Black Hole at Calcutta]]. But in these accounts it is the fact—it is the reality—it is the history which excites. As inventions, we should regard them with simple abhorrence. -"[[The Premature Burial ]]"	+
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