Here are some of the sentences that <span>contribute to the overall eerie mood of this excerpt from “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe:
1. </span><span>We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.
2. </span><span>The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.
These two sentences show us that the protagonists are walking through a catacomb full of bodies and bones, which is definitely creepy. Poe was the master of horror, so it was quite easy for him to depict such scary situations. </span>
I believe it would be, Xavier and I have been discussing our ideas in the ashford cafe.
Me and myself just doesn't sound right.
The answer is: it is about evolution.
Darwin himself characterized his seminal book, <em>On the origin of the species, </em>as “one long argument”. There is still debate as to what exactly did he mean by that characterization, but it is agreed upon that he evidently was referencing his theory of evolution based on common ancestry between species and natural selection as the process of differentiation between them, which, all in all, tells a story that took millions of years, or, in more poetic terms, it summarizes a very long argument.
