“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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