Next, Dupin explains the series of events that lead him to think of Chantilly. The narrator of "Rue-Morgue" says of this trick that it is just as if he himself has retraced his steps and his thoughts.
After the fruit-seller, the narrator had tripped on a flagstone and looked down. Dupin knew he was thinking about the stones, and then they reached a newly paved street and the narrator had said to himself “stereonomy” to describe the pattern. Dupin knew then, that the word stereonomy would connote the idea of atomies and theories of Epicurus, and the next logical step would be to think of the most recent space theorist, Dr. Nichol, and lookup
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The description of Dupin’s process of detecting the narrator’sthoughts is long and complicated but Dupin doesn’t seem to put anyeffort into it, it comes naturally to him. This gives him a very special,intellectual power. Poe's stories often put a man of reason into asupernatural situation that overwhelms him. But Dupin seems tohave a mind that combines reason and sensitivity in away that canShare with your friends: