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The world pushes pins on a bulletin board we pass daily and on that board are scraps of paper, messages which have no order or design but of which we must make order and design for better or worse. If not we go mad.
Peaceable Kingdom
Jack Ketchum
Frankenstein is “a story of scientific hubris, a creator consumed by his creation, a male scientist trying to eliminate women’s role in reproduction” (Kupferschmidt, “The Long Shadow of Frankenstein”).
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White
“How I always wanted to make sure that nothing bad ever happened to anyone. I look at Hillary, and Aaron, and I think about all the bad stuff they’re going to have to face. And other kids, too. All sweet and pure and bright, and how they’re going to have to go through what happens to everyone, but shouldn’t. I wish I could be there to stop whatever bad’s going to happen.”
“Like Holden Caulfield?”
“Right: catch them as they go over the rye field. But he wanted to because he thought adults were phonies. I don’t think that. I think adults are just overgrown kids who maybe looked in the funhouse mirror and believed what they saw.”
The Children's Hour
Douglas Clegg
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