1. Douglas Bly, Description of a New, Curious, and Important Invention (Rochester, New York, 1860), 3.
2. A. A. Marks, Manual of Artificial Limbs (New York, 1910), 223.
3. Ibid., 226.
4. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man That Was Used Up,” in The Complete Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 387.
5. These episodes are a kind of rhetorical prosthetic meant to supply the missing piece of conviction that Smith is truly a man at precisely the moment when Smith’s human integrity is about to be challenged.