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22 - The Island of Dr Moreau - H G Wells
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One unclean rag was about me, my hair a black tangle, no doubt my discoverers thought me a madman. It is strange, but I felt no desire to return to mankind. I was only glad to be quit of the foulness of the beast people. And on the third day I was picked up by a brig from Opia to San Francisco. Neither the captain nor the mate would believe my story, judging that solitude and danger had made me mad. And fearing their opinion might be that of others, I refrained from telling my adventure further, and professed to recall nothing that had happened to me between the loss of the Lady Vane and the time when I was picked up again, the space of the year. I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save myself from the suspicion of insanity. My memory of the law, of the two dead sailors, of the amused scars of the darkness, of the body in the cane-break haunted me. And, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange enhancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island. No one would believe me. I was almost as queer to men as I had been to the beast people. I may have caught something of the natural wildness of my companions. They say that terror is a disease. And anyhow I can witness that for several years now a restless fear has dwelt in my mind. Such a restless fear, as a half-tamed lion cub may feel. My trouble took the strangest form. I could not persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also another beast people. Animals half-rot 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 had 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 alter gather 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 that 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 forever. Perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic law, being altogether different from the beastfolk. 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 lived near the broad, free downland, and can escape thither when this shadow was over my soul. And very sweet is the empty downland then, under the windswept sky. When I lived in London the horror was well-nigh insupportable. I could not get away from men. Their voices came through windows, flocked doors were flimsy safeguards. I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me. Third of craving men glanced jealously at me. Weary pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer dripping blood. Old people bent and dull, past murmuring to themselves. And all unheating, a ragged tale of jibing children. Then I would turn aside into some chapel, and even there such was my disturbance. It seemed that the preacher jibbered "big thinks," even as the ape-man had done. Or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey. Particulately nauseous were the blank, expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses. They seemed no more my fellow creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone. And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone. Like a sheep stricken with gid. This is a mood, however, that comes to me now. I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spent my days surrounded by wise books, bright windows in this life of hours lit by the shining souls of men. I see few strangers, and have but a small household. My days I devote to reading and to experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. 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