Saturday, January 11, 2014

How Do You Plead?

If I were to die and found myself at the bar before the Supreme Judge who threatened me with eternal damnation unless I could mount an effective defense for my past actions, I might be tempted to have Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly entered into the record.

I would then state that the defense rests secure in the knowledge that a verdict of innocent was a foregone conclusion.

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."

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