Question: the imp of the perverse edgar allan poe summary

title: The Imp of the Perverse (short story)
text: We stand upon the brink of a precipice . We peer into the abyss -- we grow sick and dizzy . Our first impulse is to shrink away from the danger . Unaccountably we remain ... it is but a thought , although a fearful one , and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror . It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height ... for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it .