Mythbusters ended too soon. I feel like The Cask Of Amontillado is exactly the myth they would have tested.
Like, figuring out how long it takes the mortar to dry. Finding the maximum amount of time before knocking down a recently built brick wall. Establishing the best place on a recently bricked wall to topple it and escape.
And then, doing all of that while drunk.
Mythbusters, you left us too soon.
actually, they made that episode – I have a copy of it in my basement, wanna see?
Books aesthetics: The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar A. Poe 1839).
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the
autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low
in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback,
through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length
found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within
view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it
was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of
insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.“
