Hoping that among our "silent viewers", the distinguished Poe authorities newly invited as above are now included, we now return to Edgar and his personality as revealed in the Announcement so far.
Attention is next drawn to " The Cask of Amontillado" (published 1846) where our Edgar decides to forever entomb his "Fortunato"-his truth seeking younger irish self- so that "Montresor"- the other side, the "reasoning" scottish obviously, of his schizzo personality- stops being punished anymore from the thousand injuries the sincerity of the former already caused.
One is again reminded of Dr Fludd's "playne simplicity/Vnity" vs "double dealers, false and treacherous men/Errour's den" eternal conflict between truth and falsehood.
Other conclusions on Edgar may be drawn from the text but are of limited interest when compared to the observation that this conclusion-that he decides to "bury Truth" to surrvive-is totaly independent of whatever has been revealed so far in the Announcement, ie it can easily be drawn from the text of "The Cask" itself as it will be next explained:
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "amontillado" metaphoricaly means "of dry speech or manner", ie sincere writing style. Furthemore, whereas he selects the word "Cask"-casket- in the title, later on in the text, he makes the distinction by using another word-pipe-thus the conclusion is indeed easily and independently reached, that Truth is buried.
The question arise therefore "Why has this simple observation not been made thus far? "
The "learned scholars" say practicaly nothing at all:
According to Hammond, "Whether the story is read as an allegory on the eternal conflict between the unimaginative man and the creative artist, or simply as a self-portrait of two aspects of Poe himself, 'The Cask of Amontillado' remains one of his most brilliantly written tales and one which deserves to be included in any anthology of horror."
At http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/poe5.htm an english literature teacher named Rambo places 100 or so questions regarding the Cask of Amontillado but "forgets" to ask himself, or his students, the most elementary as above.
"Silentium inter clamores"