The Resurrectionist Quotes

“I hear them marvel at my work--my indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there are some gentlemen who doubt what I will tell them. They call me a liar and a charlatan or a quack. But in time the methods of science that I now employ to convince people will surely set them free--alas, this I cannot explain to the angry fools. (Spencer Black)”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“I have butchered many men. All are innocent and
equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. —Dr. Spencer Black”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Doctors are not gods; but we do their work. —Dr. Spencer Black”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“The miracle of life is granted, and how that miracle can be defective is a nuance that I am most interested in understanding.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Our consciousness, our awareness, is a symptom of our body and it is secondary to the mystery of our physical chemistry.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“They called us resurrectionists, grave robbers.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“A child born without arms may be a confused body that lacked the information to produce wings, of a harpy perhaps.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“How can the body, being designed and charged to a specific task, mutate and abandon its function without the fulfillment of another one?”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“When one dies they neither ascend to the heavens nor descend to hell, they instead become cured—freed from an illness and healed from the suffering of mortality. Our consciousness, our awareness, is a symptom of our body and it is secondary to the mystery of our physical chemistry.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“And yet I feared my father more than I feared my God”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Dr. Black’s findings are like the far-fetched and fantastic dreams of a child, not the ideas of a modern scientist.… His claims ought to be written in a novel, where the audience is more prone to delight in the hysterics derived from monsters. —Dr. Joab A. Holace”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Nature governs its creations equally; a man can perish as easily as a plant can be destroyed beneath one’s heel.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“The sustainable body of scientific evidence is derived
from the contractions made by the objective observer,
not the parroting of the learned scholar. —Dr. Spencer Black”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“He asserted that he could change the genders and ages of his patients. He performed his surgeries live on stage, in what surely must have been macabre performances”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“He believed that the mutations were manifestations of the ancient past he had written about—evidence of a genetic code that was not completely eradicated.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“The entire body is the soul, and my knife cuts deep into the flesh; I vow to be always reverent with the edge of my scalpel.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Throughout the international tour, Black claimed he had the power to raise the dead, to make people live longer or even forever. He asserted that he could change the genders and ages of his patients. He performed his surgeries live on stage, in what surely must have been macabre performances.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“When death arrives, the very life inside of you knows its own fate; it writhes and claws with a ferocity that has no equal. Then in a quick moment, there is no more pain and you can hear the sound of death.
She travels to you gently, as though water had been suspended in the air in-between. The song of her voice greets you with a messenger's reverence and a diplomat's neutrality so that you might me soothed by her meaning nd calmed by her presence.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Steam rose off our aged horse. The mist of her breath was comforting: she was an innocent creature...”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“You are like a child at practice on a piano. You balance a stick on the backs of your hands just along the knuckles while you play, ensuring proper posture. Then you play something bland and unimaginative; however, the stick will never fall to the floor, bravo! When I perform, the stick falls, then a symphony flows from me. —Black”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“A man, scientist or not, who can manipulate nature through vivisection or any means to this end does not practice science but instead knows it––and possesses a power that no man should wield, for this work no man should have wrought. —William J. Getty, M.D., F.R.S.C.
(Professor of Surgery in the Anatomy Department of the
University of Medical Science, New York)”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“When death arrives, the very life inside of you knows its own fate; it writhes and claws with a ferocity that has no equal. Then in a quick moment, there is no more pain and you can hear the sound of death. She travels to you gently, as though water had been suspended in the air in-between. The sound of her voice greets you with a messenger’s reverence and a diplomat’s neutrality so that you might be soothed by her meaning and calmed by her presence.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“They were gathering in crowds like swarms of pests, murmuring and confused. Suspicious shadows cast over their faces gave an eerie countenance to all who looked upon my work and believed in what they saw. They saw the vestige of life’s history.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“I have devoted my efforts thus far to the fulfillment of my work, only to share it now with liars, criminals, and killers: ignorant people whose only reluctance to eat one another is that they do not care for the taste. Yes, I am in good company, indeed.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Simply stating that an object is in disrepair does not allow that object the benefit of a new identity.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“I must know why five fingers are intended before I can discover the cause of six.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“We as scientists, physicians, sophists, do not allow such nonsense as god and monsters to infect our logic.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“promise to excel as a scientist of medicine. The entire body is the soul, and my knife cuts deep into the flesh; I vow to be”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“He theorized that the same reasoning used to heal or reverse a deformity could also serve to engineer a deformity; he would have to create what he thought the body (nature) had originally intended.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the body attempting to grow what it once had thousands of years ago.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black