NOTES

utter carelessness . . . second

Again, as in his shock over the mistreatment of Justine Moritz in the first volume (I:7:30), Victor's innate sense of decency is evoked to complicate our recognitions: in this particular case, that his own medical carelessness was implicit in his creation of a being with monstrous features who could not function within a conventional social format (I:3:7) and that his uncaring brutality has been recently marked in the wanton destruction of the second creature on whom he had been working in the preceding chapter (III:3:4).