"Thou Art the Man" (1844)by Edgar Allan Poe Story copied from the Wikisource. I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you—as I alone can—the secret of the enginery that effected the Rattleborough miracle—the one, the true, the admitted, the undisputed, the indisputable miracle, which put a definite end to infidelity among the Rattleburghers and converted to the orthodoxy of the grandames all the carnal-minded who had ventured to be sceptical before. One fine day, this magnanimous old gentleman was agreeably surprised at the receipt of the following letter:-