...spirit holding the tablet open in his left hand, and the dictation is as follows, to-wit : ] 1099. It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being ; and all the events of my period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations...

...VIII of Paradise Lost. "For man to tell how human life began / Is hard . . ." says Adam (11. 250251); "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being . . ." begins the Monster in Chapter XI. Adam and the Monster share early sensations of light and dark,...

...15 gan his tale. CHAPTER III. "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original aera of my being: all the events of that period appear...heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, 20 a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. By degrees,...

...his creation as a mass of undifferentiated sensations, which he only gradually learns to distinguish: A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and...distinguish between the operations of my various senses . . . No distinct ideas occupied my mind; all was confused. 1 felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and...

...monster's autobiography in words that read as a translation or paraphrase of Rousseau's autobiography: "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember...distinguish between the operations of my various senses" (F, p. 98). This description of the first impressions of a being who awakens from the dead recalls...

...thoroughly immersed in the undisciplined physical senses that were important to the older discourse: "A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me and I saw, felt, heard and smelt at the same time" (98). However, amid the deprivations of winter, where almost all sensations are painful, the monster...

...thoroughly immersed in the undisciplined physical senses that were important to the older discourse: "A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me and I saw, felt, heard and smelt at the same time" (98). However, amid the deprivations of winter, where almost all sensations are painful, the monster...

...of knowledge, but with a very different voice. (I choose the passages that are musically relevant.) It is with considerable difficulty that I remember...distinguish between the operations of my various senses . . . No distinct ideas occupied my mind; all was confused. I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and...

...seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale. 101 Chapter III "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being: all the events ofthat period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I...

...relentless hunger and thirst, saying: "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original aera of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct." Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, ed. J. Paul Hunter (New York: Norton, 1996), 68. All citations from Frankenstein...