Edgar Allan Poe: F., do you mean something like this when you give me hints to the "third eye"? :P

The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe

(1845)

"Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio." [Seneca]

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I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C Auguste Dupin... For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence...

"That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling everything 'odd' that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of 'oddities'...

"Why, yes; and not exactly that either. The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether."...