"my own disease, then, grew rapidly upon me, and assumed finally a monomaniac character of a novel".
"then indeed has it come to pass that one truth is stranger than any fiction - for Bedlo, without the e, what is it but Oldeb conversed? And this man tells me it is a typographical error".
"to be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality".