[ There are, unsurprisingly, even more strange things to adapt to. Hearing the inner thoughts of other people is invasive no matter how much things like that are normalized here. Poe is just lamenting his interaction with this element when he overhears something interesting.
and what a tormenting thing to overhear. No matter how you think about it those sound like criminal intentions. How very macabre to think it during such a cheery time of the year. ]
Is the second wish so you can fulfill the first?
[ There's no possibility of Poe knowing who this is. At the time he was brought in Poe knew second hand about rats and Dostoevsky but no clown. ]
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and what a tormenting thing to overhear. No matter how you think about it those sound like criminal intentions. How very macabre to think it during such a cheery time of the year. ]
Is the second wish so you can fulfill the first?
[ There's no possibility of Poe knowing who this is. At the time he was brought in Poe knew second hand about rats and Dostoevsky but no clown. ]