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THE ELEPHANT MAN AND OTHER REMINISCENCES - FRED...

'The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences' is a collection of short stories  each a surreal mix
of fact and fantasy. They are the work of Sir Frederick Treves  a renowned surgeon and author.
- In the Mile End Road  opposite to the London Hospital  there was (and possibly still is) a
line of small shops. Among them was a vacant greengrocer's which was to let. The whole of the
front of the shop  with the exception of the door  was hidden by a hanging sheet of canvas on
which was the announcement that the Elephant Man was to be seen within and that the price of
admission was two pence. Painted on the canvas in primitive colours was a life-size portrait of
the Elephant Man. This very crude production depicted a frightful creature that could only have
been possible in a nightmare. It was the figure of a man with the characteristics of an
elephant. The transfiguration was not far advanced. There was still more of the man than of the
beast. This fact-that it was still human-was the most repellent attribute of the creature.
There was nothing about it of the pitiableness of the misshapened or the deformed  nothing of
the grotesqueness of the freak  but merely the loathsome insinuation of a man being changed
into an animal...

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