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Black took the fawn-child home and conducted a secret but thorough dissection in the attic. Not even
his family knew of his work until it was completed.
What is interesting is that in his writings and notes, Black expressed that he was not working on a
human being who had suffered from deformation. Rather, he believed the fawn-child was exhibiting a
vestige of a mythological past. His approach to anatomy and medicine had changed dramatically in a
rather short amount of time.
August 14, 1878
My dissection thus far has revealed nothing that would lead me to think this was
not a relative to a satyr. I have brought a small common domestic goat (Capra
domestica) up to the attic to use for comparison. My tests determine that there is
indeed an animal woven into the fawn-child; however, it is not related to this
particular type of goat. Discovering the relative will not be easy; the differences in
size, color, and horns make it difficult to determine relationships. The fawn-child
bears a resemblance to the ibex (Capra ibex), one of the more perfect goats, but its
fur is like that of the cashmere goat (Capra thibetensis).
Physiologically, the animal is human, it does not have the four chambered
stomach of other ruminants; therefore, I have not found a bezoar stone either. It is
human … mostly.
I am trying to hold firm to reason and logic while I learn a lifetime of zoological
science in a mere month. I am trying not to perform an injustice to the innocent
creature on my table. I am fighting fatigue and sickness daily now: the anxiety of
this work and knowledge is weighing heavily. My nerves are ruined, but oddly I feel
vitalized and nourished at the same time. I cannot think, I cannot eat or sleep, smile
or be angry; I feel nothing other than a nauseating compulsion to continue the work
on the flayed creature who silently waits in the attic. With its skin peeled back and
pinned in place, its organs removed and floating in jars of noxious liquid; it waits
beside drawings and notes documenting its total and final destruction.