Call me square if you like, but every time I vote I think of Valley Forge and Antietam and the suffragists and Omaha Beach and Selma and all the people around the world who’d still give their necks, and do, for one chance at what I did in five minutes.
Don’t let them down.
MARY SHELLEY: inspired by Lord Byron, I’ve written a story
BYRON: I’m flattered!
MARY: it’s about the world’s dumbest monster
BYRON:
MARY: hideous, illiterate monster