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But I could not escape the mask. It loomed above me with gaping maw and staring eyes; eyes that seemed more dead and deadly as my vision cleared. The mirror enlarged the horror that lay below it.
It was the wrench of nausea that pulled me from this nightmare. In the violence of the retching, I rolled from beneath the mirror and raised myself to hands and knees. I had knocked over the clock and it shouted up at me--10:05, July 15. Three days! Too long! Too horribly long!
Slowly I dragged myself to the telephone and pulled it from the stand. I remember nothing else until they brought me here.
This thing, this body is too far gone. I won't be able to make it move. I'll just feel it getting away--little by little--ripping apart cell by cell, and then everywhere all at once.
I can feel it now. But in that great silence, I could almost hear the tearing--yet there was no sound.
The doctors have given up all hope. I can see it in their faces. I could hear them talking among themselves when they brought me in. They had to give it a name. There's a certain safety in a name, you know.
I would have told them, but I was afraid they'd laugh. The nurses would laugh and say to each other, "Have you heard what the one in 408 wanted in his case history?"
I couldn't stand the laughter now.
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