A SENTENCE BY MARY SHELLEY

May 29, 2010

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change, without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

These words never tumbled from Boris Karloff’s lips while he played Frankenstein’s monster, did they? The monster, as written by Shelley, was quite the cerebral creature.

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