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* UpliftedAnimal: After [=McLennegan=] removes the creature's brain and transplants Framingham's into the body, the result is Elasmosaurus-Framingham who retained his human intelligence and memories, allowing for the sight of a sea monster singing Gregorain lyrics to the tune of "Where did you get that hat?", [[spoiler: at least until the body eventually takes control of his mind.]]
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* UpliftedAnimal: After [=McLennegan=] removes the creature's brain and transplants Framingham's into the body, the result is Elasmosaurus-Framingham who retained his human intelligence and memories, allowing for the sight of a sea monster singing Gregorain Gregorian chant lyrics to the tune of "Where did you get that hat?", [[spoiler: at least until the body eventually takes control of his mind.]]
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It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur which attacks him, he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham's brain into the body of the Elasmosaur, as one does.
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It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur Elasmosaurus which attacks him, but he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly brain. Shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham's brain into the body of the Elasmosaur, as one does.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Framinghim kills himself to escape the pain of his illness. Shortly before, he and [=McLennegan=] idly discuss how amazing it would be if [[GeniusBruiser his intellect could somehow be combined with the physical fortitude of the Elasmosaur]], so it's very ambiguous whether he is trying to invite the BrainTransplant or not.
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Compare ''Literature/TheMonsterOfPartridgeCreek'', another story about [[LivingDinosaurs prehistoric life]] turning up in the WeirdWest.
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* UpliftedAnimal: After [=McLennegan=] removes the creature’s brain and transplants Framingham’s into the body, the result is Elasmosaurus-Framingham who retained his human intelligence and memories, allowing for the sight of a sea monster singing Gregorain lyrics to the tune of "Where did you get that hat?", [[spoiler: at least until the body eventually takes control of his mind.]]]]
* WeirdWest: A foundational example, with a plesiosaurid lurking in a lake on the Wisconsin frontier.
* WeirdWest: A foundational example, with a plesiosaurid lurking in a lake on the Wisconsin frontier.
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* LaughingMad: After his mind is lost to the monster's body, Framingham can only cackle incessantly as he devours the corpse of [=McLennegan=].
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* StockNessMonster: An {{Unbuilt|trope}} example given the idea of an Elasmosaur that lives in the lake predates the "discovery" of Nessie by over three decades!
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* StockNessMonster: An {{Unbuilt|trope}} example given the idea of an Elasmosaur that lives in the lake predates the "discovery" of Nessie by over three decades!decades!
* UpliftedAnimal: After [=McLennegan=] removes the creature’s brain and transplants Framingham’s into the body, the result is Elasmosaurus-Framingham who retained his human intelligence and memories, allowing for the sight of a sea monster singing Gregorain lyrics to the tune of "Where did you get that hat?", [[spoiler: at least until the body eventually takes control of his mind.]]
* UpliftedAnimal: After [=McLennegan=] removes the creature’s brain and transplants Framingham’s into the body, the result is Elasmosaurus-Framingham who retained his human intelligence and memories, allowing for the sight of a sea monster singing Gregorain lyrics to the tune of "Where did you get that hat?", [[spoiler: at least until the body eventually takes control of his mind.]]
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* MadScientist: It could be argued that [=McLennegan=] is one what with the fact that he tries to play god in the vein of Literature/{{Frankenstein}} by splicing the brain of a human with the body of a prehistoric monster.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The idea of a brain transplant is itself not possible with current understanding of medicine and biology, a cross-species brain transplant between a human and an extinct prehistoric marine reptile is even more ridiculous.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The idea of a brain transplant is itself not possible with our current understanding of medicine and biology, a cross-species brain transplant between a human and an extinct a recently discovered thought-to-be-extinct prehistoric marine reptile is even more ridiculous.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [=McLennegan=] slices off the top of the Elasmosaur's head and removes its brain. Not only is said brain described as "similar to a human's", the creature is still able to move around and live without it.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [=McLennegan=] slices off the top of the Elasmosaur's head and removes its brain. Not only is said brain described as "similar to a human's", the creature is still able to move around and live without it. InUniverse, it's treated as a case of BizarreAlienBiology, portraying the Elasmosaur as a more outlandish creature than the real deal would be.
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* HollowWorld: [=McLennegan=] speculates that there is a tunnel at the bottom of the lake that the Elasmosaur came through that leads to a prehistoric world within the earth. This theory was actually in-vague at the time, at least among the general public.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A strong case can be made that [=McLennegan=] is the true monster of the story. His friendship with Framingham falls apart when he transfers his friend's brain into the Elasmosaur out of scientific curiosity and continues to use his friend to satisfy his perversion of nature while his mind is slowly overtaken by the beast's body. Predictably, the rabid Framingham murders [=McLennegan=] and is killed by the Army after, which may as well have been a MercyKill.
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Framingham's ultimate fate, as his humanity is overtaken by the body of the monster]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Framingham's mind slowly deteriorates until he becomes a full-on sea monster and kills [=McLennegan=], then is shot to death by a group of soldiers]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Framingham utters one when Captain Fairchild finds him eating [=McLennegan=], though it's implied that by this point, "Framingham" is well and truly dead]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Framingham's mind slowly deteriorates until he becomes a full-on sea monster and kills [=McLennegan=], then is shot to death by a group of soldiers]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Framingham utters one when Captain Fairchild finds him eating [=McLennegan=], though it's implied that by this point, "Framingham" is well and truly dead]].
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The idea of a brain transplant is itself not possible with current understanding of medicine and biology, a cross-species brain transplant between a human and an extinct prehistoric marine reptile is even more ridiculous.
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It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur which attacks him, he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham’s brain into the body of the Elasmosaur.
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It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur which attacks him, he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham’s brain into the body of the Elasmosaur.
Elasmosaur, as one does.
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* HollowWorld: [=McLennegan=] speculates that there is a tunnel at the bottom of the lake that the Elasmosaur came through that leads to a prehistoric world within the earth.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and he looses the ability to speak and murders [=McLennegan=].]]
* StockNessMonster: The Elasmosaur that lives in the lake.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and he looses the ability to speak and murders [=McLennegan=].]]
* StockNessMonster: The Elasmosaur that lives in the lake.
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* FantasyAmericana: The idea that America still has unexplored pockets where secrets wait to be explored comes from this.
* HollowWorld: [=McLennegan=] speculates that there is a tunnel at the bottom of the lake that the Elasmosaur came through that leads to a prehistoric world within theearth.
earth. This theory was actually in-vague at the time, at least among the general public.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and helooses loses the ability to speak and murders [=McLennegan=].]]
* StockNessMonster:The An {{Unbuilt|trope}} example given the idea of an Elasmosaur that lives in the lake.lake predates the "discovery" of Nessie by over three decades!
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and he
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''The Monster of Lake [=LaMetrie=]'' is a 1899 short story by Wardon Allan Curtis.
It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur which attacks him, he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham’s brain into the body of the Elasmosaur.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ApocalypticLog: The story is told through a series of journal entries between 1896-97.
* BrainTransplant: [[spoiler:[=McLennegan=] transplants the brain of Framingham into the body of the Elasmosaur.]]
* HollowWorld: [=McLennegan=] speculates that there is a tunnel that the Elasmosaur come through that leads to a prehistoric world within the earth.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and he looses ability to speak and murders [=McLennegan=].
* StockNessMonster: The Elasmosaur that lives in the lake.
''The Monster of Lake [=LaMetrie=]'' is a 1899 short story by Wardon Allan Curtis.
It tells the story of Dr. James [=McLennegan=] and his sickly companion Edward Framingham who travel to a lake high up in the Wyoming mountains. When they reach the lake, [=McLennegan=] discovers it is home to an Elasmosaur which attacks him, he manages to kill it and removes the brain, shortly afterwards Framingham seemingly commits suicide and [=McLennegan=] decides to place Framingham’s brain into the body of the Elasmosaur.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* ApocalypticLog: The story is told through a series of journal entries between 1896-97.
* BrainTransplant: [[spoiler:[=McLennegan=] transplants the brain of Framingham into the body of the Elasmosaur.]]
* HollowWorld: [=McLennegan=] speculates that there is a tunnel that the Elasmosaur come through that leads to a prehistoric world within the earth.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: [[spoiler: It appears that Framingham’s mind devolves the longer it is in the body of the Elasmosaur and he looses ability to speak and murders [=McLennegan=].
* StockNessMonster: The Elasmosaur that lives in the lake.
