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  2. Acute intermittent porphyria - Wikipedia

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    AIP is one of the four porphyrias that presents as an acute attack. 90% of affected individuals never experience an acute attack and are asymptomatic, while an estimated 5% of affected individuals experience repeat attacks. [5] Attacks are most common in young adult women and are rare before puberty or after menopause. [8]

  3. Porphyria - Wikipedia

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    Porphyria / p ɔːr ˈ f ɪr i ə / is a group of disorders in which substances called porphyrins build up in the body, adversely affecting the skin or nervous system. [1] The types that affect the nervous system are also known as acute porphyria, as symptoms are rapid in onset and short in duration. [1]

  4. Loss of Breath - Wikipedia

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    Exploring the elevated spirituality of the human body, transcendentalism was one of the main discourses during Poe's time due to speculations of immortality and questions on the post-human subject as a result of progress in medicine. It is suggested that during Poe's time, experiments that investigated death and life's limit were popular.

  5. Status effect - Wikipedia

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    Boosting the damage output of the target. Lowering the damage output of the target. Taunting the enemy to avoid other players getting attacked. Being Spotlighted and being unable to avoid or redirect enemy attack. Increasing Stealth to avoid the enemy detecting or hitting the player. Decreasing Stealth to detect the target or hit them easier.

  6. Alexander Pope - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

  7. Ligeia - Wikipedia

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    Exactly what Poe was trying to depict in the metamorphosis scene has been debated, fueled in part by one of Poe's personal letters in which he denies that Ligeia was reborn in Rowena's body [10] (a statement he later retracts). If Rowena had actually transformed into the dead Ligeia, it is only evidenced in the words of the narrator, leaving ...

  8. Berenice (short story) - Wikipedia

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    On the same LP Price also read "Morella" and "The Imp of the Perverse". All three Poe stories were re-issued in 2000 on the Harper Collins 5-CD set, The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection. The 1995 computer game The Dark Eye contains reenactments of selected stories by Poe. One of them is based on "Berenice" and allows the player to experience ...

  9. The Imp of the Perverse - Wikipedia

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    The narrator explains at length his theory on "The Imp of the Perverse", which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest.This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of the Imp of the Perverse". [1]