Cartoon Poe vs. Super Poe

Cartoon Poe writing hoaxes Super Poe writing hoaxes
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.