E’s Reviews > A Journal of the Plague Year > Status Update

more zombie proof: "...should one of those infected, diseased creatures have bitten any man or woman while the frenzy of the distemper was upon them, they... would as certainly have been incurably infected as one that was sick before..."

Zombie proof: "Some will have it to be in the nature of the disease, and that it impresses every one that is seized upon by it with a kind of a rage, and a hatred against their own kind... prompting him with evil will or an evil eye, that, as they say in the case of a mad dog, who though the gentlest creature before of any of his kind, yet then will fly upon and bite any one that comes next him.."

i cant imagine these things really happening... id rather pretend it was zombies.

this is "heavy" reading. very interesting, and even if it is a fiction, i assume i draws from some sort of accounts to make a very convincing picture of the coming plague. amid the data laden text is a sense of reality i havent felt before when reading about the plague. i dont want to put this book down.