Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe

As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of "dead! dead!" absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once ... crumbled—absolutely rotted away beneath my hands.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. The narrator, in "The Case of M. Valdemar," American Review: A Whig Journal (1845).

Dying and the "physique of horror."
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