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s~Z wrote:
> 
> read that Poe story someone mentioned 'Never Bet The Devil Your
> Head'....thanks a lot for that.....excellent little piece on authorial
> intent and other things.....uncanny sharing of images with chapters 1 and 3
> of _The Master and Margarita_


http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/a_g_pym/toc.html


Victoria is a Catholic. 

We can note the sun, the desert, the city, Baedeker,
tourism, skin and disease, clothes and disguise, Vs
(including the Vatican, Victoria(s)--Australia, Queen of
Ireland, Empress of India and so on, mirrors, clocks,
balloons, chess, yes, but it's RELIGION,  and once again it
is  deviant sexuality--little girls, fetishes, voyeurism,
and Religion--virginity--chased venery, apostolic
succession, gift of tongues, and colonial S&M, Religion, and
most importantly here, the ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION, the
bride, the groom still waiting at the alter, that we should
not overlook. 

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/140615.htm

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/religion/cath1.html