"Some Words With A Mummy"
Edgar Allan Poe
"We made an incision into the tip of the subject's nose, while the Doctor himself pulled the nose into vehement contact with the wire... Figuratively and literally – was the effect electric. In the first place, the corpse opened its eyes and winked very rapidly for several minutes; in the second place, it sneezed; in the third, it sat upon end; in the fourth, it shook its fist in Doctor Ponnonner's face; in the fifth, turning to Gliddon and Buckingham, it addressed them, in very proper Egyptian."
Illustration taken from 1904 Edition of Poe's Collected Works
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