Posted on 02/08/2005 7:17:20 AM PST by Callahan
I could not persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also another Beast People, animals half wrought into the outward image of human souls, and that they would presently begin to revert, - to show first this bestial mark and then that. But I have confided my case to a strangely able man, - a man who had known Moreau, and seemed half to credit my story; a mental specialist, - and he has helped me mightily, though I do not expect that the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me. At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory, and a faint distrust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky. Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, - none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale. I know this is an illusion; that these seeming men and women about me are indeed men and women, - men and women for ever, perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic Law, - beings altogether different from the Beast Folk. Yet I shrink from them, from their curious glances, their inquiries and assistance, and long to be away from them and alone. For that reason I live near the broad free downland, and can escape thither when this shadow is over my soul; and very sweet is the empty downland then, under the wind-swept sky.
Island of Doctor Moreau, Ch. 22
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What's your address?
you sound just a tad eager there, fella... ; )
Nah, just a bad day and no dog to kick...
Egads!
Jocelyn Wildenstein. (sp?)
Was married to some billionaire and kept getting plastic surgery...the NY Post calls her "The Bride of Wildenstein" or "Cat Woman".
Enough to turn a straight man gay.
That's 2000 words
See above post :-)
I feel sorry for him... It must be hard for actors to grow old gracefully.
Some of them are pretty bad. Even sad. But looking through them did make me realize something. I'm pretty hot!~
No kidding. I am the one who posted her pix.
That's a great site. It made my wife feel much to know Jessica Simpson's breasts are storebought.
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