# Cartoon Poe vs. Super Poe

Cartoon Poe writing hoaxes | Super Poe writing hoaxes
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Depressed, possibly suicidal | Ecstatic
Incompetent at fiction | Demonstrating metafictional skills
Sloppy | Calculating
Untrue to his own poetic principles | Hoax principles are unannounced and encrypted

Change the assumption. Poe is no fool, and the implication that he cannot manage a hoax is laughable. He has simply outsmarted the professor-critic, who declares that which he cannot solve to be ipso facto insoluble. But after all these years Poe’s very text — the text itself — actively mocks those who cannot interpret it.

Super Poe bends fiction in upon itself with his mind alone, and ProfCrit has finally, finally recognized that Poe may be after a Super Reader to interpret his hoaxes.

Indeed.