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Alfie 1:17 Sun Jul 17
Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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I have procured myself a brand newly tailored set of pantaloons this day.
I wear them even now as we speak, observe them in the slight reciprocal light of my boudoir dress mirror.
Their trousers adhere to my misshapen legs as if embroidered brocades of the finest stitched tweed, their smart turned drop masking the suppurating columns of my lumpen legs so that the effect is of limbs seeming almost acceptably civil.
Rising Above the carefully cut waist band and the unfilled brace loops sits my mis cast torso, its margins unshirted, blemished and twisted in offensive angles by the cruel ambition of my hideous ague.
North and east then crossing to west above my breast there found is the collective horror of my face and head, upon which this condition is writ largest and most offensive: the containing skull bulbous and wild, engorged to proportions all out of natures design and richly ugly, piteous skinned and featured unlovely.
The year of our lord is 1887' and i am Joseph Merrick of the Whitechapel Hospital come.
My new pantaloons arrived today.
Whilst brief, this is all that i mean and have to say.
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Lily Hammer
4:01 Sun Jul 17
Re: Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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AOI
I am NOT an ignoramus, I am a Whoer Being.
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Any Old Iron
1:24 Sun Jul 17
Re: Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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Lilly Hammer. He was wearing a dinner jacket, or evening dress. The word tuxedo is a vulgar Americanism which wasn't even in use in Merrick's lifetime. Ignoramus.
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WHOicidal Maniac
1:12 Sun Jul 17
Re: Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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Would you like a cup of tea?
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Lily Hammer
1:09 Sun Jul 17
Re: Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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Love the bit in the film where he's just got decked out in a tuxedo, ready for the opera or some such thing, and he turns, straightens his bow tie, and asks......
"How (sluuurps up some flem) do I look?"
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Briano
1:05 Sun Jul 17
Re: Joseph Merrick takes delivery of new trousers. 1887.
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His skeleton is on display at the Whitechapel hospital museum.
It is indeed grotesque.
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Tomshardware
1:31 Sun Jul 17
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You spoke little of your briefs, hand woven with goldfinch feathers and peaty fauna no doubt. There's a tailor who works with such fine materials and I been fortunate to have my modest sack cushioned in such a fine and comfortable manner.
With such a misshapen chap such as yourself he may well be able to fahion you an equally fine garment to nestle your weighty balls into. Knowing not exactly what lurks betwixt your legs i can only imagine it a hideous mess to match your face.
Go west Sir, seek out the ripe fields of wheat and farmers would pay handsomely for your ugly and frightful being, there you'll stand amongst crops with only the larks for company.
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