Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I was about fifteen years old,

Belrive,

“Electricity”;

some fatality

Another fatal flaw.

I became disgusted with the science of natural philosophy,

Uh-oh ….

the age of seventeen;

Haha - so idyllic as to be funny.

Ingolstadt.

Elizabeth

will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.”

that most irreparable evil,

the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.

when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity;

that most imperious duty, of rendering her uncle and cousins happy,

I wonder what their sex life is like, with no children?

Clerval,

learning was superfluous in the commerce of ordinary life.

Henry

this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.

M. Krempe,

Haha

M. Waldman,

I did not feel much inclined to study the books which I procured at his recommendation.

A lazy self-absorbed egoist.

Judging a book by its cover. Fatal flaw.

Haha - what a maroon.

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

Nonsense

M. Waldman,

a panegyric upon modern chemistry,

a chimera.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.”

An interesting one indeed.

application

In M. Waldman I found a true friend.

application,

ardent

applied

ardour

Two years passed

Nonsense

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?

apply

physiology.

an almost supernatural e...

appli...

anatomy:

Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a church-yard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

charnel houses.

from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a