
Then “pounding in the murderer’s ears after the man was dead.” (3) Although any of (2) Only one commentator feels that the sound was indeed that of the old man’s heart, first heard in fact and

Identify the sound either as an hallucination or as the narrator’s misapprehension of his own heart beat. The narrator himself believes the sound to have been the heart of his victimīeating even after his dismembered body has been concealed beneath the floor boards of his bedchamber. To reveal both the crime and his own guilt to the police. The mystery surrounds the source of the sound that drove Poe’s deranged narrator to murder an old man and subsequently

Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a genuine mystery story, one that thus far has eluded satisfactory While the report of the interview was not reprinted after 1919, it will be also shown here that Lenin responded to Keynes in a speech that was reprinted in his Collected Works.The Lesser Death-Watch and “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1) Keynes' discussion of inflation in the Economic Consequences can then be read as an extended commentary on the remarks attributed to Lenin in the interview.

It is now possible to show that Keynes based his remark on a report of an interview with Lenin published by London and New York newspapers in April 1919. Fetter suggested that Keynes based his remark on stories about what the Soviets were supposed to be saying that he heard at the Paris peace conference of 1919. expressed doubt that Keynes was really quoting Lenin because they found no such statement in Lenin's collected published writings. One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that "the best way to destroy the capitalist system to debauch the currency." The passage, attributed to Vladimir Illyich Lenin, appears in Keynes' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which became an international bestseller when it was published in 1919.
