Monday, October 24, 2016

Frankencrane

To Victor Frankenstein, My Creator:

     You have followed a path similar to creating a paper crane.
1)      Start by folding the bird base
As a young child you built up a base for your hunger for knowledge, learning from books such as Cornelius Agrippa’s. You treated them as treasures and took in as much as you could.  
2)      Crease both lower “legs” of the bird base, in preparation for reverse folds to create the body
Then at the age of seventeen, you have embarked on a journey to gain mastery in your interests by attending the University of Ingolstadt, the catalyst of your preparation for creating me. The teachers have told you that you will be successful and have showed you machines you can use in the future, a day that decided your “future destiny.”
3)      Open up the leg and bring the paper inward and then upward, repeat this with the other side
            As you continued your progress with your “scientific pursuit,” you gained new information, information that peculiarly attracted you. You began to ask questions about the human body and how life was made.  You studied all aspects of this and were almost complete in your creation.   
4)      Make a reverse fold for the head of the bird and then fold the wings down
            Alas, you made it. You collected all your materials to create me and now all it took was one spark. What you set out to do had finally happened. I had come alive, and when I opened my eyes, you ran away.
5)      Hold the tail and the spot below the wings to flap the bird.
            But my creator, one difference from this bird and me is that this bird had its creator to flap its wings, but my creator had run away, leaving me alone to survive in this harsh world with no support. If my creator cannot love me, then who can. Did you not think of my emotions?  I leave immediately knowing that you do not wish to look at me anymore.
           You have not thought of the consequences of your actions.

From,
         The Creature



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