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If he wouldn’t have been such a science nerd he could have started a band, you know? He wanted to do something great. He needed to discover a different kind of heavy metal.

“I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.”

Victor would have killed it writing teenage angst diary entries. Or a manifesto.

LOCAL BOY DISCOVERS ALCHEMY HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER THE PSEUDOSCIENCE IS DISPROVEN BY FACTUAL EVIDENCE.

Beaufort reminds me a lot of the father from the old Brothers Grimm version of beauty and the beast.

I made it through the Letters!! That was not as dull this time.

“You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.”

^^ that is an interesting and enlightening passage but I find it funny he’s somehow learned all this about this guy he literally just met. Buddy you are INFATUATED.

“Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew. I believe it to be an intuitive discernment,a quick but neverfailing power of judgment,a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision;add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soulsubduing music.”

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.”

“One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”

This very next sentence is where he goes too far into mad ambition, however. You know what? You are a wretched man. LIFE IS BUT A SMALL PRICE TO PAY??? I’m glad Victor metaphorically punches him in the face for this.