"Diddling - or the abstract idea conveyed by the verb to diddle - is sufficiently well understood. Yet the fact, the deed, the thing diddling, is somewhat difficult to define. We may get, however, at a tolerably distinct conception of the matter in hand, by defining - not the thing, diddling in itself - but man, as an animal that diddles"
Edger Allen Poe - Diddling (1850)
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