More Fitting Frankenstein

"...and if I was ever overcome by ennui (to put it lightly), the sight of what is beautiful in nature, or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man, could always interest my heart, and communicate elasticity to my spirits."

                                        Mary Shelley  Frankenstein

Fitting Frankenstein

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before."
                                                                Mary Shelley   Frankenstein

Scattered Like Marbles

"...when, all in a moment some confounding remembrance...would fall upon me like a destructive missile, and scatter my wits again. Scattered wits take a long time picking up; often, before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought..."

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

                                                                                   Charles Dickens, Great Expectations