Thursday, October 29, 2009
Blog #5- The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe writes a mystery/ detective story of Dupin, himself as a character and the French police. There has been a letter taken and nowhere to be found. The letter is thought to be in a hotel but after a careful search no letter is found. The letter is later found because the character didn’t look in the smallest place or in secret spots but because they looked at the situation at whole. Therefore looking from a distance were able to identify the letter and obtain it. I guess this makes u consider when looking for something, stop looking. Take a step back perhaps rethink of the last place it was placed which is looking at the whole picture.
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Well, you'll have to work some of this out in more depth, but the idea of "looking" (in a differen way) for someting by not "looking" (in the usual way) could be interesting. This again puts the scientific objectivism--in this case, the limits of empiricism--into question. See my extensive notes on this story on the class blog.
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