I blog-published "The Horror's of Creation", my translation of "Hmm hmm hmm" by Serge Gainsbourg. I memorized the chorus and the first verse of his song "Kiss me Hardy". This is a pretty simple song so it shouldn't take long to finish it.
I weighed 83.8 kilos before breakfast.
I worked on one paragraph of my essay for ninety minutes:
The surface of the creature appears as the inside of a human. Victor can see "the work of muscles and arteries". He can see the subdermal systems moving, the blood flowing, and the muscles flexing. He can see the dynamic pulsations of life but they look like death to him and therefore they are ugly. Ugliness alone is the criterion by which Victor judges his creation's inner character from the time of his first animation until he suspects him of murder. But the virulent language that Victor uses to name him has more vitriol before he guesses that the creature killed his six year old brother. Based entirely on his appearance he calls the creature a "miserable monster", a "demoniacal corpse" and a "filthy daemon". After William's murder and the subsequent strangulations of his friend and of his wife, Victor uses the same words "monster" and "daemon" many times, but never propped up with the added poison of supporting insults like "miserable", "filthy", or "corpse". This shows that Victor is more angered by the creature's ugliness than by the killing of his loved ones. His crimes are secondary to the offensive sight of his "detested form". It is in response to the belief that "his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery" that Victor aborts the creation of a mate for him.
Denying someone a mate or any kind of community in society because of physiognomy, pathognomy, dress, gender, or form of artistic expression, the excluded victim is seen as a monster.
The office chair that I bought at Walmart last year is wearing out at the seat. I had to put black duct tape over the areas where it is getting rough. I need to get something similar in leather. Maybe an Oxford chair but I didn't see anything like that when I was looking a year ago.
I weighed 84.5 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride to Bloor and Bathurst.
I weighed 84 kilos at 17:30.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:36.
I worked for almost an hour on my essay. There are just a few new things I added:
In naming his creature a monster and excluding him from society Victor renders him monstrous. This is atypical behaviour for a scientist as Victor purports to be.
Although exiled from Frankenstein's society, as a thinking being, Victor's creature nonetheless feels a natural inclination to have society with other thinking entities. In order to do this he feels the need to become literate so as to gain the ability to communicate and thereby attain fellowship with and the acceptance of humans.
For dinner I had the usual avocado, tomato, cucumber, and scallion salad with lemon juice and a glass of Garden Cocktail with a dash of hot pepper sauce. This was the last meal of the tenth day of my fast. There are four more days to go. I ate while watching season 6, episode 3 of The Beverly Hillbillies.
The Clampetts arrive at Clampett Castle in Kent, England. Jethro continues to misinform his family of how England works. He thinks that the owners of castles are served by Saxon dogs. The head butler John Faversham instructs the servants to run out and line up for inspection. When the Clampetts see them running they think they are running away. Jethro shouts, "Halt you Saxon dogs" and they all stop where they had planned on stopping but Jethro thinks his command did it. Jethro addresses the lineup and asks for the oafs, the serfs, knaves, churls or louts to step forward. No one moves. When he asks if there are any swineherds they begin to snicker. Jethro thinks they should be flogged because flogging is the sport of kings. Faversham introduces himself to Jed and says that he is major domo of the castle. Jed thinks that is his name. Faversham explains that "domo" is short for domicile and then Jed tells Granny and Elly to shake hands with Mr. Domicile. The butler says "Faversham" but Granny thinks that's an English greeting and says, "Faversham to you too!" Jethro says he's going to go hunting dragons and asks Faversham if there's a limit. Faversham says, "You are at liberty to slay as many as you can find." Granny asks Faversham how Cousin Marcus is and Faversham asks if she's referring to the late Marcus. Granny says he shouldn't call him that since he can't help being late if he's sick. The Clampetts still don't realize that Marcus is dead and that's how they inherited the castle. Faversham says Marcus was taken by general peritonitis last month. Granny thinks that General Peritonitis is an army doctor and she doesn't trust those because they are too fast with the saw. She goes to look in on Marcus anyway.
In the next scene we see a sheepdog on a bed. The maid comes and talks to him and we find out his name is Teddy and he was Marcus's dog. He misses his master and is lying on his bed. She hears Granny coming and closes the bed curtains so she can't see the dog. Granny talks to Marcus through the curtains. She reaches in to feel his pulse but doesn't realize she's holding a dog's paw. When she touches his face she thinks they haven't been shaving him. When he pokes his head out she still doesn't recognize he's a dog but she thinks he's at death's door and runs to Jed.
Meanwhile Jethro has donned a suit of armour for hunting dragons. Jed says he's heard there are English gentlemen coming to call on Elly. Jethro says that's not how it works. Elly has to put on a damsel in distress dress and go to the tower to yell "Help, save me!" So Jed tells her to go do that. Granny asks Jed for permission to save Marcus since he's the next of kin. Jethro mounts a horse in his armour and gallops off with his lance held sideways which causes him to be knocked off his horse as he tries to go through the too narrow gate. He's knocked off his horse several times by tree limbs and such as he goes hunting for dragons.
Granny goes back to Marcus's bedroom and throws back the bed curtain to see Teddy with a big bone in his mouth and a pile of bones behind him on the bed. She thinks the dog has eaten Marcus. Granny wants to go home because she doesn't want to dodge man eating dogs.
Faversham was played by Richard Caldicot, who attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then worked in theatre for many years. His film debut was in The Million Pound Note. He co-starred in the movie "Mrs. Thursday". He was famous for his role as Commander Povey on the long running BBC radio sitcom "The Navy Lark".
It's been sixteen days since I've found a bedbug.
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