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“And hadn’t the story of the Loch Ness (MONSTER), since 1933, become a true story, told in installments?”
“That is, if almost anyone who came close to the lake could see it, why wouldn’t they photograph it?”
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“He was going to go out looking for it.”
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“The kind of someone who, when reality failed to produce news that might sell newspapers, simply created it.”
“Or at least that’s how he regarded Henry Morton Stanley when he called him aside in 1869 and asked him to withdraw one thousand pounds from the bank and set out in search of Livingstone.”
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“So Bennett and his best correspondents were going to specialize in finding lost explorers.”
“As the supposed only beings that know we are going to die, we need a sense of purpose for what we’re doing here.”
“Which opens, each time, the possibility that something that has not been inventoried exists.”
“I mean, how is it even possible that a prehistoric creature had never stopped inhabiting a lake in which humans fished and bathed, a lake on which they sailed ?”
“Human beings have invented many explanations for things just so they can sleep at night.”
“Do you know that in Scotland it rains 286 days a year, even now ?”
“Livingstone.”
“Let me tell you briefly about James Gordon Bennett, the charmingly eccentric owner of the New York Herald in 1869.”
“The force of gravity would exist, but it wouldn’t have that name.”
“Mills even had a model built, with which he toured all of Scotland, a papier-mâché (NESSIE) with crazed eyes, pointy humps, and antennae .”
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“Every published article made it very clear that the “spotter” had been a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer—in other words, someone with a respectable profession was risking that respectability for this .”
“Fascinating enough to result in a series of articles capable of keeping readers hooked with each new installment, as with a serial novel.”