will mr Poe comment on a reference involving his possible namesake

Global is right.

"Italian police arrested Marzola on August 16 as he was about to emigrate to the Ukraine, where he had bought a house and a studio in the city of Karkov. His travel baggage included a wardrobe of 500 items of "petite-sized'' lingerie; hundreds of DVDs of child abuse and rape; computer equipment; an archive of 30,000 electronic addresses and communications; computers and cameras; and €100,000 in cash."

This story broke months ago. I caught only one photo of that Marzola dude, a pudgy Pee Wee Herman if I'm right. Scum.

Who's gonna play Amanda in the movie?

Winona should play the victim

Mandy Moore, perhaps?

Sorry, voodoo. I'm getting ready to go meet my Jew.

I disagree. Technology doesn't make these events per se. What it does is to enable the Gertrude Steinesque repetition of subtly varying possible narratives by virtue of providing a real-time ever-varying (if only minutely) set of possible facts to base the narratives on.

Presently.
Exactly as they do.
First exactly.
Exactly as they do too.
First exactly.
And first exactly.
Exactly as they do.
And first exactly and exactly.
And do they do.
At first exactly and first exactly and do they do.
The first exactly.
At first exactly.
First as exactly.
At first as exactly.
Presently.
As presently.
As as presently.

The evening news is the only published discourse more tedious than Gertrude Stein's poetry.

This post and the comments are silly.
Global child porn rings have nothing to do with Amanda Knox.

"Amanda's crime".....is not murder, but telling different stories to the cops.

"The event in Perugia" owes its existence not to world wide technologies...but to the existence of a knife.

The connection to the short story Murder on The Rue Morgue is ... nil......they are just two knife murders, but the Perugia one presents none of the intriguing and puzzling facts of the other one. And this Perugia murder is not going to start a whole genre of fiction (the detecitve story) like the other one did.

The advent of global trade is not the date of publication of the murder on the rue morgue, 1841. IT was way before that (remember the Vikings trading in slavesand loot? 12th c. spice trade ? enslaving and trading of Africans startign in 1600s? global trade in tobacco, sugar, in 1700s?? Do facts matter?)

And of course global trade is not "complete" today.

The only things remotely notable about the Perugia crime are that (a) today people move to, invest in, study in, and marry people from, different countries more than before, esp. in centers of international study in Europe, and (b) because of the internet we can all gawk at the people involved easily.

Oh, and (c) it does not quite look like gawking, if we take care to wrap it up in pseudo intellectual blather and obscure references to works of literature.

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a) global trade in the age of capital and machines is what i mean. the slave trade and all other forms of pre-capitalist trade are something else.

b) read the short story carefully. please, read it with care. you will then see it is not the manner of the murder that matters or matches the murder in italy. a hint, where is the killer from in the short story? and the people who find the corpse, where are they from? read with your eyes, sir.

c) global capitalism has reached its complete point. it is now total. the world is dominated by the consumer market.

A better Poe comparison would have been with The Mystery of Marie Roget. The two stories bear an almost uncanny resemblance, don't you think?

Note: THE QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN. man, they hate us over there.

Now, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Patrick reveals his feelings towards the infamous "Foxy Knoxy", and tells how the seemingly quintessential American turned into a tormented monster eaten up by anger towards both himself and Meredith.

"She was angry I was firing her and wanted revenge," he says. "By the end, she hated me. But I don't even think she's evil.

To be evil you have to have a soul. "Amanda doesn't. She's empty; dead inside. She's the ultimate actress, able to switch her emotions on and off in an instant. I don't believe a word she says. Everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie. But those lies have stained me for ever.

Go Poland!