Frankenstein by Spike Milligan

Author:Spike Milligan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9789085241522
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 1996-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

VOLUME TWO

CHAPTER I

I could never watch Drop the Dead Donkey; I could only watch it fall and pray for its soul. They say all the souls of dead donkeys go to Bexhill-on-Sea.

“Victor,” said my father, “for fuck’s sake snap out of it. I loved your brother.”

Tears came into his eyes; they ran down his body into his boots where they escaped through lace holes as steam.

“It is a duty to improve or enjoy, even the discharge of daily usefulness without which no man is fit for society. For fuck’s sake, snap out of it.”

Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair, and endeavour to hide myself from his view behind a piece of cardboard from where I shouted, “For fuck’s sake I can’t snap out of it.”

About this time we moved to a house at Belrive. This change was particularly agreeable as there was no rent to pay. Often, when the rest of the family retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water. It sprang a leak, and despite four hours of bailing out it sank. Another time I hoisted the sails and let the wind take me wherever it would. I ended up in France.

It took me two days of sailing to get back. Often I was tempted to plunge into the lake; that the waters might close over me and end my calamities forever, but each time I ran short of breath and had to surface. Thank heaven, it saved my life.

I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new hobby like haddock stretching or nude woodchopping. None of these activities could obliterate the monster from my mind. I must find him, even if it means going to the Andes. There I would arrest him.

The monster would not leave my mind

Suppose he left it behind!

He could throw it in the sea

Dearie me

And that would be the end of me.

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