Frankenstein

“i write a chapter on Frankenstein in which I make the argument that Frankenstein the do Frankenstein who creates this monster has not violated as Mary Shelly did has not violated God's prerogative”

“this is one of the chapters in the book is about the novel frankenstein which i argue is about a man usurping the power of women that they”

“I think Frankenstein is not just a the source of great horror movies uh and and great jokes and great imitations like the Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein. It is also one of the wisest books of gothic horror ever written, and an absolute work of genius.”

“Um well, my head is swirling so much with a million books, but just for like little continuity, I would say read Pinocchio and Frankenstein.”

“And at that age, at 11, I pedal my bicycle to to to that store and I bought the paperback uh from a a Spanish a Spanish um publisher and that was the 1818 text um which is for me the only text uh the only version of the three versions that exist of the novel that were revised during”

“you know there there's such a pageantry such a savagery to Catholicism and uh at 11 the questions I had about the world were very profound and and and Frankenstein uh the book downsized a lot of these questions...”

“People think they know Pinocchio. People think they know Dracula. People think they know Frankenstein. People think they know Monte Cristo. But the mechanics that made the books what they are uh escaped them.”

“it's the Frankenstein idea yes the annotator Frankenstein on my coffee table is this tremendous novel”

“yes the annotator Frankenstein on my coffee table is this tremendous novel it really is just beautifully perceptive”

“Frankenstein is different Frankenstein is a creature”

“frankenstein is a good the man tried it on his brother look at louis van gaal look at uh do you know you know what frankenstein symbolized the idea that machines were taking over machines were now taking over humanity wow we're having the same talk 100 years later about how machines are going to take over and and make”

“so if you think about like um anything you know frankenstein... that mary shelley who wrote that book was that was the thesis of that book”

“There's a new Frankenstein coming out. Yeah, dude. It looks sick. Deer comes back. It's uh what's his face, too? Peiquey Blinders. Killian Murphy. Yes, that guy's the [ __ ] man. He's the [ __ ] man, dude. He's going to be Frankenstein. Yeah, that's wild. And he's the doctor, I believe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, everybody”

“Byron suggests that he, Mary Percy, and Byron's physician, have a competition to write the best ghost story while stuck indoors. Mary was just 18 years old when she won the contest with her creation of Frankenstein.”

“I mean she saw that by the way. It's very interesting about Mary Shel. I mean, she saw that coming. She saw exactly what will happen when we become God.”

“one of the biggest literary influences in my life has been Mary Shell's Frankenstein”

“And this year he's nominated for his adaptation of Mary Shel's Frankenstein. That is the classic novel which tells the tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein, the monster that he creates and the many tragedies that ensue.”

“you know like the story like Frankenstein stories for example are an indication of the fact that well the pursuit of knowledge pur say isn't necessarily a good”

“And you know, well, then I went and read the book, which I had also never read. And Frankenstein is so lovely in the book.”

“One of the works that you took a look at was um Frankenstein. And this I never saw this coming. This is what's so creative and innovative about your book. Frankenstein, the way you studied it and the way you see it, is basically a story about the usurpation of the power of women.”

“You know, in Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein made a monster that was intelligent, but he also gave it consciousness.”

“so they were things like Frankenstein Dracula Jael and Hyde Sherlock Holmes”

“So let's say I'm writing a chapter um in in the laws of human nature on envy and the the story that I used for envy is about Mary Shel, the author of Frankenstein and that relationship with that woman who was very envious of her.”

“so does that narrative matter other than as an entertainment as a way to for us to scare ourselves the equivalent to reading say Frankenstein by Mary Shelley”

“now I'm on something very different which is Mary Shell's Frankenstein it's the 200th anniversary of the book and so I got this nice new edition of it and figured that it would be a good time to read it”