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Steven Knepper

Oct 29, 2026

39:04
And there's something really... spooky about it, but also just the sense of spooky that is almost demonic.
39:14
Yeah, and fun fact, Dostoevsky really liked Poe and introduced a couple translations of Poe for a magazine in Russia.
39:25
It's interesting, Poe is a mixed bag with other prominent American writers.
39:32
Some are his champions, many are his detractors.
39:35
But with some of the great international writers, you know, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Poe is so important to them.
39:45
So that's an interesting thing.
39:46
Or I shouldn't say so important.

14 MINS LATER

53:57
And I think that's one way you can read The Haunted Palace is almost as a critique of Kant's confidence in the Enlightenment and in Enlightenment reasons.

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