He meant killing his neighbor, dismembering the body, and burying the body parts under the floorboards of the bedroom, along with the general paranoia and mental disease that goes along with all that. (Read his short story The Tell-Tale Heart)
Hi Harry, during my post graduation, I had Poe's Raven wherein he talks about perverse conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember. There's something macabre in his writings which oddly fascinates. Yes, Harry in the tell tale heart, the narrator loves the old man but harms him, people generally harm those they love or need. The old man is reduced to a pale blue vulture eye. The narrator likes everything but that eye in the old man. He fails to see that the eye is the “I” of the old man, an inherent part of his identity that cannot be isolated as he perversely imagines.LOL Harry....I got carried away....even his death is shrouded in mystery!
Harry 