[1288]Cappi,“Poe's Physical Cosmology, ”188n50;Stamos,Edgar Allan Poe,“Eureka,”and Scientific Imagination, 219,notes the similarity to Penrose's cyclical universe(Roger Penrose,Cycles of Time:An Extraordinary New View of the Universe [New York: Random House, 2010]) and connections to string theory (van Slooten，“Edgar Poe—Cosmologist? ”)；科学哲学家斯塔莫斯将坡描述为一位鼓舞人心的科学美学家和想象力理论家。Mary-Jane Rubinstein,Worlds Without End:The Many Lives of the Multiverse(New York:Columbia University Press,2014),and John Gribbin,In Search of the Multiverse:Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions,and the Quest for the Frontiers of Reality(New York:Wiley,2010);David Kaiser,Quantum Legacies:Dispatches from an Uncertain World(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2020).
[1289]James Gleick,The Information:A History,a Theory,a Flood(New York:Vintage,2011),120,171,217, 375, on Poe and codes, Babbage, and information metaphysics.
[1290]Douglass，“Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered, ” 2:507. On the deep entanglement of post-war molecular biology and eugenics，见Daniel Kevles,In the Name of Eugenics:Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity(Cambridge,Mass.:Harvard University Press,1995).
[1291]Beyond the similarity between Barnum'sArt of Money Getting and Donald Trump'sArt of the Deal,in a 2016 interview Trump embraced the comparison, saying: “我们很需要P·T·巴纳姆，因为我们必须建立起我们国家的形象。”Meet the Press,NBC,Dec.30,2016.
[1292]在这种解释中，坡的哲学既坚持真理，又坚持矛盾的必然性和质疑的持久性；他的哲学通过提出一个非还原性单一现实概念（存在模式的多重性，包含在一个不可言喻的“神圣的精神”中——这相当于“虚无”，正如G·R·汤普森在《统一、死亡和虚无》中强调的那样），承认科学家、神秘主义者和艺术家所构成的现实存在。坡和黑格尔和谢林一样，展开讨论了斯宾诺莎的参与性“泛神论”和莱布尼茨的透视主义，但没有线性展开。柏格森和怀特海的过程哲学提供了有用的比较对象，因为他们承认经验和数学科学的力量，同时将它们嵌入一个虽然难以捉摸，但颇为重要的整体之中，正如皮尔斯的进化宇宙论和詹姆斯的“多元世界”。换而言之，丹尼尔·霍夫曼在Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe中发现的多重性并不仅限于坡的性格和风格；它也适用于坡对现实的多元化观点。此外，正如坡所认识到的那样，他对自然和知识的看法，像其他任何真理一样，与其实现和表达的具体场合、器官和媒介联系在一起。正因如此，只有通过他的人生和所处时代发生的故事才能理解坡那始终不一致的“哲学”。
[1293]Variations on this recurrent existential/epistemological/psychological pattern in Poe are explored in, for example,J.Gerald Kennedy,Poe,Death,and the Life of Writing (New Haven,Conn.:Yale University Press,1987);Justin,Poe dans le champ du vertige;Robert Shulman,“Poe and the Powers of the Mind, ”ELH 37,no.2(1970):245-62.
[1294]Poe，“The Light-House, ” a name given by Woodberry in 1909, was published for the first time in 1942 and first included in a collection in 1951; three of its four MS sheets (in brown writing on light blue paper) are held at the Houghton Library at Harvard; the first is in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, the New York Public Library. Joyce Carol Oates reimagined the story in“Poe Posthumous:Or,The Light-House”inWild Nights!:New Stories(New York:Harper Collins,2009);its traces may lurk in Junji Ito's spiral-obsessed Manga,Uzumaki(San Francisco:Viz,2013),and Jeff VanderMeer'sAnnihilation(New York:Farrar,Straus and Giroux,2014).Late in the writing of this book, Robert Eggers'sThe Lighthouse was released,a visually stunning film based on Poe's fragment.
