still reading frankenstein and i completely forgot that theres a part where victors wrapping up doing devious deeds on a sparsely inhabited island off the shore of england and he loads all his mad scientist shit into a rowboat and pushes off into the water and then fucking falls asleep with no navigational tools and when he wakes up hes like, adrift with no land in sight and hes likeĀ āFUCK my creation!!!!!ā even though the monster had absolutely nothing to do with getting him lost in the middle of the fucking english channel and he starts lamenting about how hes going to die and his family is never going to see him again and hes going to go to davey jones locker or whatever because hes been without potable water in a rowboat for like 4 hours and then he sees land and hes likeĀ āoh thank god im saved!!!ā and he gets to shore and is met with an angry mob who thinks he murdered someone and hes likeĀ ābut where is english hospitality?????ā and theyre likeĀ āthis is ireland you dumb slutā and as theyre marching him to the magistrate hes likeĀ āi was still thirsty but did not want to show my weaknessā¦ā¦ā like could you even imagine
Frankenstein is an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the highly specialized form of stupid that comes from being told for your entire childhood that youāre a world-changing genius who can solve every problem because youāre so smart, but now youāre in college and you have depression and you keep fucking everything up because being good at reading science books when you were 12 doesnāt actually translate into making smart life choices and youāre constantly beating yourself up about your horrible failures but you couldnāt possibly ask anyone for help, and in fact the idea doesnāt even cross your mind because obviously you will be able to handle it this time because youāre a world-changing genius who can solve every problem, and consequently you keep right on catastrophically fucking everything up, and I donāt think it gets enough credit for that.
Byron: Where did you find the inspiration to create such a wretched man?
Mary, who has been stuck in a house with him for weeks: No idea, mate š