Text: Richard P. Benton, “Subttitle,” Studies in Poe's Pym (1975), p. 3 (This material is protected by copyright)

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And rushed into the embraces of the cataract where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness of the snow.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym