finding frankenstein
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“It’s alive! Alive!” – Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein. Since and even before the fascination of the replication of human life, as expressed through the medium of film, particularly the horror and science-fiction genres, such as the film, ‘Frankenstein’ and more recently, ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’, as the genius mistaken for madness, of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who has been the archetypal icon for the sublimated core of man as god. How the stuporstitious have attempted to thwart the progession of science at every turn, but sadly fail in this modern age. Gone are the dark days of christian tyranny, when logical […]
(Special thanks to Rev. Thomas Thorn) I wore small shoes, And my mind was fresh, When you and I first met. Beneath a blanket, On a couch in a fever, In front of the television set. An angry wind, Rattled the windows, As I clutched that blanket in fright. On the monochrome screen, The creature appeared, Such a terrible, beautiful sight. He turned to the camera, Rocking ever so slowly, Lit only by a Stygian moon. I gasped in delight, At his dead-eyed stare, And felt myself starting to swoon. I was frozen in awe, Of what I just saw, […]
Born of the charnel houses and graves A man-made Adam, rejected by his creator Imbued with that Promethean spirit, yet touched with naught but the cruelty of man’s inhumanity to man The one who made you in defiance of the Abrahamic save-master A man of science, his surname mistaken for yours Frankenstein, a name immortal You, his creation, a thing of the wild Self-taught misanthrope Titan God