…process. When you put a storyline on a novel or a film, you're much less involved. All right, the detective story. Edgar Allan Poe discovered, you see, that if you take the storyline off the detective story, the audience has to participate and make the…

…The object of the artist in the later 19th century was to involve the viewer or the audience in the making process. Edgar Allan Poe hit upon this with his detective story technique. He discovered that if you leave out all the connections in a story, the…

…about their artistic mode. Pop art, popular forms of entertainment, whether in the Elizabethan period are now, or in Dickens and Poe and Al Cap, are now regarded as serious investigations into the environment of the time. Dickens was intensely aware of the…

…serious investigations into the environment of the time. Dickens was intensely aware of the new changes in his time, as was Edgar Allan Poe. And these people only achieve artistic status when they get moved into some other culture in some other time. As…

…some other culture in some other time. As soon as the Alcaps are old enough, their precious art forms, as soon as Edgar Allan Poe and Dickens are regarded as absolute drivel by most of their contemporaries, but Edgar Allan Poe was regarded as a sort of…

…art forms, as soon as Edgar Allan Poe and Dickens are regarded as absolute drivel by most of their contemporaries, but Edgar Allan Poe was regarded as a sort of artistic saint by Baudelaire, by Valéry, move him out of his culture into another culture,…