A tale of monster and maker // Body Politic creates a fascinating `Fire'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 11, 1991| Author: Hedy Weiss | Copyright information

As a young man, Victor Frankenstein heard the screams of his mother as she died giving birth to his younger brother.

Already a science student obsessed with the physics of life and death, Victor became even more determined than ever to find a way of "animating a piece of tissue" in his laboratory. And before long he actually managed to create a man born of no woman.

Yet the continued existence of the creature struck terror in the heart of its maker, who learned too late that...

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