Tag: The Purloined Diamond

The Purloined Diamond

(Continued) The diamond from the Chi-rho page of the Book of Kells — The diamond at the center of Euclid's Proposition I, according to James Joyce (i.e., the…

The Purloined Diamond

Stephen Rachman on "The Purloined Letter" "Poe’s tale established the modern paradigm (which, as it happens, Dashiell Hammett and John Huston followed) of the hermetically sealed fiction of…