It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Hope Mirrlees
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should...
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should...
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should...
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should...
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After the brutal murder of his wife, Edgar Allan Poe wrote to his friend, John P. Kennedy: “I am trying to finish my poem [The Bells], and when I have done with it I shall try to work in some manner upon my story [The Murders in the Rue Morgue]. I think that the story will be far more effective in a dramatic form than it can possibly be in prose.”

Source: Ludinthemist

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