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3/3: ". . . [T]he very same monsters that inspired Mary Shelley to write her masterpiece, Frankenstein . . . in whose pages she warned of the risk of the blind advancement of science, to her the most dangerous of all human arts."

2/3: ". . . [A] fault, a shadow, an existential stain passed down from those experiments in which the alchemist dismembered living animals to create it, assembling their broken bodies in dreadful chimeras he tried to reanimate with electrical charges . . ."

1/3: "An ingredient in Dippel's elixir would eventually produce the blue that shines not only in Van Gogh's Starry Night and in the waters of Hokusai's Great Wave, but also in the uniforms of the infantrymen of the Prussian army, as though something in the colour's chemical structure invoked violence . . . "