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The narrator of Poe's “The Man That Was Used Up” is thoroughly captivated by Brevet Brigadier-General John A. B. C. Smith, whose good looks and fine physique make him “ an especial favorite” with “the ladies” as well as the gentlemen in the tale. He lingers over each part of Smith's s body, from “the handsomest pair of whiskers under the sun, ” “a mouth utterly unequalled, ” and “the most brilliantly white of all conceivable teeth” to the “admirably modelled” arms and the “properly proportioned calf” (405–6). But even as he delectates in Smith's s “bodily endowments”(406), the narrator begins to suspect that the sum of these endowments does not equal its parts:
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The narrator of Poe's “The Man That Was Used Up” is thoroughly captivated by Brevet Brigadier-General John A. B. C. Smith, whose good looks and fine physique make him “ an especial favorite” with “the ladies” as well as the gentlemen in the tale. He lingers over each part of Smith's s body, from “the handsomest pair of whiskers under the sun, ” “a mouth utterly unequalled, ” and “the most brilliantly white of all conceivable teeth” to the “admirably modelled” arms and the “properly proportioned calf” (405–6). But even as he delectates in Smith's s “bodily endowments”(406), the narrator begins to suspect that the sum of these endowments does not equal its parts:
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