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Raising the Wind

Posted on 5 May, 20106 May, 2010 by Ann Hendon

or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences by Edgar Allan Poe [Editor’s Note: Poe’s hilarious essay — on the subject of cons and con men —  shows that […]

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