What is the source of the Orson Welles narration on the 1987 release of ToMaI?
[Various sources, including The Avenue] The lines that begin “A Dream Within A Dream” are adapted from Marginalia 150 by E.A. Poe. The adapted lines read: “For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul (alas, how rarely!) only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection and at those mere points of time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy where all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” The lines that begin “Fall of the House of Usher” are presumably from an E.A. Poe work as well, though the source(s) has yet to be found. The passage read by Mr. Welles is as follows: “Shadows of
