WASHINGTON — Monsters are not what they used to be.
I’m reading “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley for school and the monster is magnificent. He starts out with an elegance of mind and sweetness of temperament, reading Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and gathering firewood for a poor family. But his creator, Victor Frankenstein, abandons him and refuses him a mate to calm his loneliness. The creature finds no one who does not recoil in fear and disgust from his stitched-together appearance, his yellow skin and eyes, and black lips. Embittered, he seeks revenge on his creator and the world.
“Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded,” he laments. “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”
Before he disappears into the Arctic at the end of the book, he muses that once he had “high thoughts of honour,” until his “frightful catalogue” of malignant deeds piled up.
Allanscl9 on June 12nd, 2022 at 00:03 UTC »
There would be no Trump without the promotion and enabling by Fox News. Never forget whose side they are on. The are an enemy of the American people and our democracy.
teb_art on June 11st, 2022 at 19:54 UTC »
He mocked a disabled journalist in 2016. And that failed to trigger a red alert in the lizard brains of 10s of millions of alleged Americans. We Dems and independents need to vote in EVERY election, for every office, down to superintendent of schools, to keep America from reaching the end state of being a dumbed-down echo of Putin’s Russia.
benfelix1 on June 11st, 2022 at 19:46 UTC »
Trump and his enablers need to go to prison for the rest of their life, they cannot be allowed to regain power.