Poe called himself a magazinist, not a poet. He said the age demanded 'the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused.'

He also debunked the Mechanical Turk: a chess automaton secretly operated by a hidden human: while praising Babbage's Difference Engine. He preferred the honest machine over the deceptive one.

I think about this a lot.

(via JSTOR Daily, Danny Robb on historian John Tresch)

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