The Late Mattia Pascal

In the world of natural history there is a Kingdom reserved for
zoology because it is inhabited by animals.

Among the animals which so inhabit it is man.

And the zoologist may talk of man and say, for example, that man is
not a quadruped but a biped, and that he does not have the tail that
the monkey, the donkey, or the peacock has.

This "man" of which the zoologist speaks can never be so unfortunate
as to lose, let us say, a leg and replace it with a wooden one; or to
lose an eye and replace it wi...