The paper was crumpled and many areas had been contaminated by a greyish-black "mud," with the handwriting blurred and missing in places, but after Morris's careful handling, many of the words on it had been restored to a barely legible state—
"Brown Scott" recorded the bizarre changes occurring to himself during the last lucid phase of his consciousness:
"...Around four in the morning, twelve hours after I had locked my door, the increasing intensity of the tinnitus and sporadic vertigo severely affected my movement; I could only write something when my condition was slightly better. There seemed to be hemorrhages under my skin—mysterious bruises appeared...
"At six thirty, my internal organs felt as though they were tumbling, as if the structures within my body had lost their order, moving around inside me, each with their own agenda. I felt no pain, not even the dizziness, much diminished... Fear began to subside, and clearer memories started surfacing in my mind...
