The Monster of Lake LaMetrie Quotes

“Oh, if I only had the vitality of that animal. There is a monster whose vitality is so splendid that the removal of its brain does not disturb it. I should feel very happy if someone would remove my body. If I only had some of that beast's useless strength.”
― Wardon Allan Curtis, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“No longer is he interested in my scientific investigations, but pronounces them all bosh. No longer is his conversation such as an educated man can enjoy, but slangy and diffuse iterations concerning the trivial happenings of our uneventful life. Where will it end? In the absorption of the human mind by the brute body?”
― Wardon Allan Curtis, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“I skip all entries for nearly a year. They are unimportant.”
― Wardon Allan Curtis, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

“He is beset with the idea that should other men discover him, he may be captured and exhibited in a circus or museum, and declares that he will fight for his liberty even to the extent of taking the lives of those attempting to capture him. As a wild animal, he is the property of whomsoever captures him, though perhaps I can set up a title to him on the ground of having tamed him.”
― Wardon Allan Curtis, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie