https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6 en-us 2018-08-13 17:33:36 UTC 2018-08-23 17:58:04 UTC hello@padlet.com scutler4 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274051139 "From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk! [...] a high destiny seemed to bear me on until I fell, never, never again to rise." (178)
"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries" (182)]]> 2018-08-20 14:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274051139 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274697302 “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (47) 
"Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate. My own strength is exhausted; and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.” (168) ]]> 2018-08-22 19:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274697302 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274697912 “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous” (84).]]> 2018-08-22 19:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274697912 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274698173 “When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibers, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour”(43).
" You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph[...] You would not call it 🤬 if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands"(125).]]> 2018-08-22 19:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274698173 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274698257 “No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.” (44)
“I collected bones from charnel-houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.” (44) 

]]> 2018-08-22 19:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274698257 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274699244 “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel whom thou drivers from joy and no misdeed.” (84)]]> 2018-08-22 19:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274699244 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274699543 “Men, who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves, dispersed themselves, and were unemployed employed in various arts of cultivation” (97)

]]> 2018-08-22 19:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274699543 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274700112 "Oh! When will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the dæmon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die and he yet live?" (176)]]> 2018-08-22 19:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274700112 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274700155 “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous” (84).]]> 2018-08-22 19:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274700155 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274937396 “His voice became fainter as he spoke; and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sunk into silence. About a half hour afterwards he attempted again to speak, but was unable; he pressed my hand feebly, and his eyes closed for ever, while the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips.” (182]]> 2018-08-23 17:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274937396 https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274952705 “I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of a secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be: listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject… Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, that he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." (43)]]> 2018-08-23 17:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/scutler4/4g5jsjc3rtj6/wish/274952705