One evening, while awaiting surgery, he fell out of bed in a peculiar way—almost, the nurses said, as if he had thrown himself off the bed. When I asked him about this, he said that he had been asleep and awoke to discover a leg—a dead, cold, hairy leg—in his bed. He could not think how someone else’s leg had got into his bed, unless—the idea suddenly occurred to him—the nurses had taken a leg from the anatomy labs and slipped it into his bed as a joke. Shocked and repelled, he used his good right leg to kick the alien thing out of his bed, and, of course, he came out after it, and was now
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