Eye of Sauron's Reviews > Lionizing

This one is actually rather funny.

'The first action of my life was the taking hold of my nose with both hands. My mother saw this and called me a genius: – my father wept for joy and presented me with a treatise on Nosology. This I mastered before I was breeched.'

It's a satire of the intelligentsia of high society and all the pretensions that come with it. It's also a humorous commentary on the ridiculous things people are in the habit of praising. The ending, however, certainly felt like an anticlimax; other than that, this is one of my favorite Poe stories so far.