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>rhyming 'beget' with 'baguette'

With Poe, the description is more important than what is described. The result is a strange narrative flow. Sometimes the characters move like in a movie. We see them walking through a dark corridor. The descriptions then increase the plasticity of the scene without interrupting the flow of the scene. These descriptions resemble a temporary camera panning to a detail. Here, description and described are still in balance. If the description predominates, it breaks up the scene into individual, non-coherent images. For example, to depict the face of a man, we see a vulture, the hair of a deceased old man, the grinning mouth of a drunkard, etc. So in our imagination a collage is taking place, a sequence of images. Only at the end of this sequence of images do we form the image of the man described. We derive the man from the sequence of pictures. The mood, the aura, the scent of the sequence of pictures help us to do this. The final image of the man emerges from the mist of the collage. Finally, we see him moving again through the dark corridor.

How can there be a metaphysical realm if thoughts and perceptions are part of the material realm?