...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...operations of my various senses. By degrees, I remember, a strong light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes. Darkness then overcame...

...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...

...paraphrase of Rousseau's autobiography: "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear...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...

...passages that are musically relevant.) It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear...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...

...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...

...sensation!'" This is the same style of speech which the monster adopts at the beginning of its autobiography: 'A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time.' Although these sensations are muddled at first, they are nonetheless immediately and as if miraculously...

...remember the original era of my being. ... A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me ... it was . . . a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. ... I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes. Darkness...