God bless the Elephant Man. How could he live like this? He had no choice in the matter. We complain about the most mundane things but here was a man who just wanted to lay down and sleep a normal human being.
He often said to me that he wished he could lie down to sleep 'like other people' ... he must, with some determination, have made the experiment ... Thus it came about that his death was due to the desire that had dominated his life—the pathetic but hopeless desire to be 'like other people'.
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