"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…."
— Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 (link added)
"The infamous pseudohistorian Eric Temple Bell
begins his book 'The Magic of Numbers' as follows:
The hero of our story is Pythagoras…."
Related material —
See also "Temple Bell" in this journal.
