The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition
                                            
                            By Edgar Allan Poe
                            
                                31 Aug, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt..........I am—that is to say I was—a great man; but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask; for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere in the city of Fum-Fudge.
The first action of my life was th
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                                                Excerpt..........I am—that is to say I was—a great man; but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask; for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere in the city of Fum-Fudge.
The first action of my life was the taking hold of my nose with both hands. My mother saw this and called me a genius: my father wept for joy and presented me with a treatise on Nosology. This I mastered before I was breeched.
I now began to feel my way in the science, and soon came to understand that, provided a man had a nose sufficiently conspicuous he might, by merely following it, arrive at a Lionship. But my attention was not confined to theories alone. Every morning I gave my proboscis a couple of pulls and swallowed a half dozen of drams. Less