January 28, 2000
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Erik M. Sprague spends a lot of time considering what it means to be human, even as he drops out of the human race.
Mr. Sprague, a performance artist and a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany, is slowly transforming himself into a reptile.
He's tattooed from head to foot in scales, some of which have yet to be filled in with green. He persuaded surgeons to implant a bony ridge across
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