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The creature represents the trans experience so vividly.

« I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants. » – Chapter 13.

“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.” – Chapter 10.

« It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed for ever—» – Chapter 4.