Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 98 - The Tale of a Traveler

In which a traveller from Samoa recounts a curious and unsettling tale of a man who survived a strange cranial operation transplanting the brain of a pig, only to suffer a transformation of character before madness ensued. The company debates the nature of reason and the possibility of creating new beings through mysterious scientific and alchemical means, though their speculation is met with varying degrees of credence.