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George begins this episode by talking a bit about the dynamics of performing “The Tell Tale Heart” - how it is so easy (and fun) to go “over the top” because the story is open to so many interpretations.  The those of Mr. Poe reads the story, and the role of the unreliable narrator is compared in The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart.  George also talks about a murder trial of the period (Daniel Webster was one of the attorneys) that could have served as inspiration for The Tell Tale Heart.

• 00:00 Intro 
• 00:41 Performing The Tell Tale Heart
• 03:35 “Poe” reads The Tell Tale Heart 
• 13:45 The murder of the old man
• 14:55 How does the narrator describe the way he hides the body?
• 16:08 The appearance of the officers
• 19:23 The narrator “confesses”
• 20:26 Unreliable narrators
• 22:09 How much is hallucination?
• 22:23 A Deaf The Tell Tale Heart?
• 24:37 Possible sources fot The Tale Heart
• 29:40 Quote from I Am Safe
• 31:12 Future episode
• 32:02 Sources
• 32:40 Outro 

• How is the narrator of The Black Cat like the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart?
• How are they different?
• How might Poe as a journalist got the idea for The Tell Tale Heart?
• What famous personage was a lawyer in the murder trial?
• What does the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart imagine he hears at the end of the story?
• How are  Webster’s words in a murder trial like the thoughts of the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart?

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